Slovak Elections and Politics | Fico the Fourth 🇸🇰

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Modrí+Most-Híd 83%
PS 80%
Piráti 76%
SaS 74%
Demokrati 65%
SDKÚ - DS 57%
Szövetség - Aliancia 56%
HLAS - SD 56%
KDH 53%
OĽaNO + koalícia 53%
Sme rodina 53%
SMER - SD 46%
SHO 41%
SNS 40%
Republika 29%
SOS 27%

A lot of these seem a bit high, possibly because I skipped a few questions.

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More evidence that ALDE/Renew Europe really isn't a coherent grouping.

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Are exit polls in Slovakia usually as worthless as this one was?

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Seat allocation

Smer 42
PS 32
Hlas 27
OL'ANO 16
KDH 12
SAS 11
SNS 10

So if PS and Hlas did get together, they'd need two of OL'ANO (if they want that risk), KDH and SAS for a majority.  Smer and Hlas only need one other party to get to at least 79.

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An anonymous (of course) EU official said this about Fico shaking hands with Putin in a Politico EU article:

"“Slovakia is such a piddly country that this will barely make a difference,” an EU official said. “Slovakia barely has any leverage. They need their cohesion funds and the EU’s goodwill, they can’t really afford to be a troublemaker in Brussels. What is much more relevant for Orbán is the loss of Poland as an ally on rule of law issues, they had real clout because of their size.”"

Every single thing he/she said is exactly correct.

That doesn't mean it isn't a stupid thing to say.