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Fico: Smer-SD Is Making Mikulas Dzurinda's Dreams Reality

Fico: Smer-SD Is Making Mikulas Dzurinda's Dreams Reality

Nitra, October 21 (TASR) – Prime Minister and governing Smer-SD party head Robert Fico began the party’s conference in Nitra on Saturday by enumerating the achievements of the party and Slovak Government . According to Fico, the Smer-SD party in now turning former two-time prime minister (1998-2002 and 2002-2006) Mikulas Dzurinda’

Focus Poll: Smer Retains Clear Lead on 26.2 percent

Focus Poll: Smer Retains Clear Lead on 26.2 percent

Bratislava, October 16 (TASR) – Had a general election been held in early October, it would have been won by the governing Smer-SD party on 26.2 percent of the votes, TASR has learnt from a poll carried out by Focus agency on a sample of 1,003 respondents between October

Opposition Submits Proposal for Special Session on Bzan's Legal Fee

Opposition Submits Proposal for Special Session on Bzan's Legal Fee

Bratislava, October 13 (TASR) – Opposition MPs have managed to collect enough votes to convene a special parliamentary session in order to discuss the legal fees for Radomir Bzan’s law firm, which represented the state in a dispute over the Gabcikovo Hydroelectric Power Plant (VEG), TASR learnt on Friday. [Director

Opposition Parties SaS, OLaNO and We Are Family Call on Fico to Resign

Opposition Parties SaS, OLaNO and We Are Family Call on Fico to Resign

Bratislava, October 10 (TASR) – Opposition parties Freedom and Solidarity (SaS), OLaNO and We Are Family have called on Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) to step down from his post over an investigator’s conclusion that Fico committed the crime of violating tax confidentiality when he spoke about the taxes of

Kiska Praises Attitudes of Klus and Micev and Their Support for Lunter

Kiska Praises Attitudes of Klus and Micev and Their Support for Lunter

Bratislava, October 10 (TASR) – President Andrej Kiska on Tuesday met Martin Klus and Stanislav Micev, who have decided to withdraw their candidacies for the post of Banska Bystrica regional governor and endorse the more popular candidate Jan Lunter (Independent) instead, TASR learnt on the same day. [Lunter is said to

Opposition Urges People to Cast Vote in Regional Elections

Opposition Urges People to Cast Vote in Regional Elections

Bratislava, October 10 (TASR) – The Opposition parties Freedom and Solidarity (SaS), OLaNO, Christian Democrats (KDH) and Slovakia’s Democrats (SD) are calling on people to participate in the November 4 regional elections, as every vote has the power to influence Slovakia’s future. Speaking at a joint press conference in

Centre-right: Belica Should Give Way to Gresso to Stop Far-right Uhrik

Centre-right: Belica Should Give Way to Gresso to Stop Far-right Uhrik

Nitra, October 9 (TASR) – A coalition of centre-right parties in Nitra region (Freedom and Solidarity/SaS, OLaNO, the Christian Democrats/KDH, NOVA, the Civic Democratic Party/OKS, Chance and Slovakia’s Democrats) on Monday called on incumbent governor Milan Belica to withdraw from the November 4 vote in favour of