BRATISLAVA: Slovak voters handed a resounding victory to the centre-right, anti-graft OLaNO opposition party in Saturday’s general election, dominated by an angry backlash over the 2018 murder of a journalist probing corruption in the eurozone state. They want us to make Slovakia a fair country where laws will apply to everyone,” Matovic told reporters as near full results showed his party had skyrocketed to victory. The governing populist-left Smer-SD party won 18.39 percent support and 39 seats, while the far-right Our Slovakia LSNS got 17 seats. “Instead of protesting against the ruling Smer-SD party on the streets, people will do so in polling stations,” Stefancik told AFP. Turnout tallied at 65.63 percent of the electorate, near full results showed, up from 59.8 in 2016.

Source: Pakistan Today March 01, 2020 10:30 UTC