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POSTMARK PRAGUE No.372
Sunday 22 September 2002
COMMUNISTS WIN 11 SEATS IN SLOVAK ELECTION
For the first time since 1989 the Slovak parliament will include
Communist
MPs. The Communist Party of Slovakia (KSS) won 11seats at this weekend's
elections to the 150-member National Council. It more than doubled its
support at the last election in 1998, polling 6.2% of the vote.
Saturday's election also saw the pro-NATO, pro-EU Democratic Left Party
(SDL) lose all of its 23 seats. Its 1998 vote of 14.7% slumped to less
than
3%. Its membership of the outgoing "right-left" coalition government of
premier Mikulas Dzurinda cost it dear and led to many of its MPs
deserting
the party well before the election to form new parties. These fared very
little better.
Former SDL leader Peter Weiss's Social Democratic Alternative polled
less
than 2%, while ex-SDL MP Robert Fico's new party Smer (13.5%) finished
third behind Vladimir Meciar's Movement for a Democratic Slovakia
(19.5%)
and Dzurinda's Slovak Democratic and Christian Union (15.09%).
The vote of Meciar's party was well-down (from 27% in 1998) following a
split in its ranks and US, NATO and EU threats to slam the door in
Slovakia's face if Meciar won the election, even though the party
supports
Slovak membership of both NATO and the EU.
The next Slovak coalition government will probably be made up of four
right-wing parties -- apart from Dzurinda's party, the Christian
Democratic
Movement (8.25%), a new party formed by Berlusconi-like media magnate
Pavol
Rusko, the New Citizen Alliance (8%) -- and the Hungarian Coalition
Party
(11.6%). Together they scraped together 78 of the 150 seats contested at
the weekend. This compares with the previous "right-left" coalition's 93
seats.
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Asunto: Fw: SLOVAK ELECTION RESULTS (POSTMARK PRAGUE NEWS RELEASE)
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De: "Ken Biggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (by way of Scott Marshall
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POSTMARK PRAGUE No.372
Sunday 22 September 2002
COMMUNISTS WIN 11 SEATS IN SLOVAK ELECTION
For the first time since 1989 the Slovak parliament will include
Communist
MPs. The Communist Party of Slovakia (KSS) won 11seats at this weekend's
elections to the 150-member National Council. It more than doubled its
support at the last election in 1998, polling 6.2% of the vote.
Saturday's election also saw the pro-NATO, pro-EU Democratic Left Party
(SDL) lose all of its 23 seats. Its 1998 vote of 14.7% slumped to less
than
3%. Its membership of the outgoing "right-left" coalition government of
premier Mikulas Dzurinda cost it dear and led to many of its MPs
deserting
the party well before the election to form new parties. These fared very
little better.
Former SDL leader Peter Weiss's Social Democratic Alternative polled
less
than 2%, while ex-SDL MP Robert Fico's new party Smer (13.5%) finished
third behind Vladimir Meciar's Movement for a Democratic Slovakia
(19.5%)
and Dzurinda's Slovak Democratic and Christian Union (15.09%).
The vote of Meciar's party was well-down (from 27% in 1998) following a
split in its ranks and US, NATO and EU threats to slam the door in
Slovakia's face if Meciar won the election, even though the party
supports
Slovak membership of both NATO and the EU.
The next Slovak coalition government will probably be made up of four
right-wing parties -- apart from Dzurinda's party, the Christian
Democratic
Movement (8.25%), a new party formed by Berlusconi-like media magnate
Pavol
Rusko, the New Citizen Alliance (8%) -- and the Hungarian Coalition
Party
(11.6%). Together they scraped together 78 of the 150 seats contested at
the weekend. This compares with the previous "right-left" coalition's 93
seats.
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