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Slovakian Far-Right Government Loses Majority

Although still largest party

Slovakia will hold the EU Presidency this July.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/slovakia/12184987/Slovakias-anti-migrant-PM-loses-majority-as-far-Right-make-election-gains.html

Reply 1

L i b

Um, Smer - the governing party that has won with but lost its majority - isn't "far right". It's left wing, albeit with reservations about immigration, and a member of the Party of European Socialists.

Reply 2

meenu89

Funny how on TSR someone who is a 'leftist' is described as being on the 'far- right'.... Seems to me that OP can't even read the article he has linked.

(edited 8 years ago)

Reply 3

Death Grips

Original post by Mathemagicien

Its actually quite sad how this migrant crisis has resulted in many racist, xenophobic right-wing parties across Europe gaining support and seats in their Parliaments, when beforehand nobody was taking them seriously.

People are so fickle.

Reply 4

FriendlyPenguin

Original post by L i b

Original post by meenu89

Funny how on TSR someone who is a 'leftist' is described as being on the 'far- right'.... Seems to me that OP can't even read the article he has linked.

They are far-right compared to parties here; "we will not take a single muslim"

Reply 5

L i b

Original post by Mathemagicien

They are far-right compared to parties here; "we will not take a single muslim"

They're the successor party that the Slovak section of the Communist Party merged into. That's not right-wing by any comparison.

They're quite probably xenophobic. Something that afflicts the left and right equally. Look at Keir Hardie.

Reply 6

slaven

Smer is left-wing according to easter european standards. The left in Eastern E. is different thoose in West in that they do not care about indentity politics, their main focus are labour and their social right. "Opresse brown people" is foreign to them.

Smer is an ideologicall descendant of the Slowak section of the Communist Party.