Slovakia Deals Setback to Neo-Fascist Candidate
Andrej Kiska said that We don’t want to leave.
ed the threat of extremism a lot more and they’ve expressed it." Mr. Lesko also said he believed
that voters had grown tired of the Smer party. that Compared to four years ago, Slovaks have realiz
5, 2017
TREBISOV, Slovakia — Voters have handed a defeat to the most prominent neo-fascist politician in Slovakia, refusing to re-elect the anti-European
Union candidate Marian Kotleba as governor of the region of Banska Bystrica, the results of regional elections showed early Sunday.
Mr. Kotleba was first elected governor of Banska Bystrica, in central Slovakia, in 2013
and became a member of Slovakia’s national Parliament three years later, along with 13 other members of his party, known as Kotleba — People’s Party Our Slovakia.
In another sign that change was the biggest winner in balloting on Saturday, four members of Prime Minister
Robert Fico’s leftist Smer-Social Democracy Party were also defeated for election as regional governors.
" Mr. Lunter said Saturday night. that First thing I will do in the governor’s office will be
that I’ll open all the doors and windows and let in some fresh air,
