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Gašparovič and Radičová progress to the second round of presidential election - updated
Incumbent Ivan Gašparovič, backed by two parties of the ruling coalition – Smer, the largest party in parliament and the junior coalition Slovak National Party (SNS) and Iveta Radičová – the joint candidate of the parliamentary opposition parties will be clashing head to head in the second round of presidential elections in Slovakia scheduled for April 4.
ELECTIONS: The less successful candidates speak about the results
Incumbent President Ivan Gašparovič, backed by two parties of the ruling coalition – Smer, the largest ruling party in parliament and the junior coalition member, the Slovak National Party (SNS) and Iveta Radičová – the joint candidate of the parliamentary opposition parties will clash in the second round of presidential election in Slovakia scheduled for April 4.
ELECTIONS: Former PM Dzurinda says Radičová is a symbol of change
Mikuláš Dzurinda, the leader of the opposition Slovak Democratic and Christian Union (SDKÚ) party believes that the success of Iveta Radičová, the joint opposition candidate, in progressing to the second round of the presidential elections could help Slovakia.
ELECTIONS: Gašparovič convinced he can win a second round ‘fight with the media’
Incumbent President Ivan Gašparovič, the winner of the first round of the presidential election, cannot imagine that the media campaign against him can get even harder before votes are cast in the second round on April 4. Gašparovič said some of the private television broadcasters showed their preference for Iveta Radičová, the second successful candidate, even in their coverage during the night of the election, the TASR newswire reported. After counting all the votes from 5,919 election precincts, Gašparovič finished first with 46.70 percent of the votes and Radičová was second with 38.05 percent. Gašparovič thus collected 876,061 votes while 713,735 eligible voters wanted to see Radičová moving to the presidential palace, according to the official results that the Central Election Commission announced at 10:00 on March 22.
ELECTIONS: Radičová feels strong before the second round
The opposition candidate for President of the Slovak Republic is feeling confident before the second round of the election.
ELECTIONS: All votes counted: Gašparovič and Radičová will meet in the second round
Slovakia will see incumbent Ivan Gašparovič, backed by the ruling coalition; Smer, the largest party in parliament and the Slovak National Party (SNS) and the joint candidate of the parliamentary opposition parties Iveta Radičová clashing in the second round of presidential election in Slovakia.
ELECTIONS: Unofficial results show Gašparovič and Radičová progressing to the second round - updated
Unofficial results show incumbent Ivan Gašparovič and Iveta Radičová progressing to the second round of the presidential election. The first round was held on March 21 with the election precincts closing their doors at 22:00.
ELECTIONS: Slovak voter wanted to cast ballot for Obama
The first round of Slovakia’s presidential election held on March 21 had its peculiar moments: in the town of Stupava in western Slovakia, one of the voters wanted to cast his ballot for the president of the United States, Barack Obama, and another voter wanted to see the chairman of Slovakia’s Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS) political party, Vladimír Mečiar, moving into the presidential palace, the SITA newswire wrote.
ELECTIONS: 101-year old citizen has not missed a single election
One of the oldest inhabitants of Slovakia, 101-year-old Anna Starostová from Adamovské Kochanovce in the Trenčín region has not missed a single election day in Slovakia. On March 21, she also cast her vote in the first round of the Slovak presidential election after members of the election precinct commission visited her in her home.
ELECTIONS: Unofficial, preliminary results show Gašparovič and Radičová progressing to the second round
Unofficial preliminary results show incumbent Ivan Gašparovič and Iveta Radičová progressing to the second round of the presidential election. The first round was held on March 21 with the election precincts closing their doors at 22:00.
ELECTIONS: Pre-election polls show Gašparovič and Radičová as strongest candidates
The latest pre-election opinion polls projected Ivan Gašparovič and Iveta Radičová to be the strongest candidates, even though neither of them would win enough votes in the first round to become the head of state, according to the polls released by all-news public television station TA3.
ELECTIONS: Polling agency estimates Gašparovič got the most first round votes
Incumbent President Ivan Gašparovič is estimated to have collected the most votes in the first round of Slovakia’s presidential election, according to projections made by the Polis polling agency for the private television station TV JOJ, released shortly after the polls closed at 22:00 on March 21.
ELECTIONS: An election precinct commissioner dies on the job
Though the first round of the presidential election in Slovakia was peaceful, with no irregularities reported to the Central Electoral Commission, one member of the election precinct commission in the town of Turčianske Teplice had a heart attack during the day of the voting. The 73-year old member of the commission had been nominated by the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union (SDKÚ-DS) party, the SITA newswire reported. The sad circumstances, however, did not stop the voting process since the precinct still had the required number of commission members.
ELECTIONS: Seven candidates run in the presidential election
In the first round of the presidential election in Slovakia on March 21, seven candidates are running. Dagmara Bollová is running as an independent candidate and incumbent president Ivan Gašparovič is being supported by two of the parties which make up the ruling coalition - Smer (the largest) and the Slovak National Party (SNS).
ELECTIONS: Slovaks voting in presidential election
Slovakia, with its estimated 4,250,000 eligible voters, is voting for the country’s next president. The first round of the presidential election started on March 21 at 7:00. The voting is taking place in 5,919 election precincts which will close at 22:00 on the same day.
Procurements Office submits results of ministry investigation
Slovakia’s Public Procurements Office (ÚVO) has sent the results of its investigation at the Ministry of Construction and Regional Development related to the so-called ‘bulletin board tender’ to the country’s Supreme Audit Office (NKU), ÚVO spokesperson Helena Fialová announced on Thursday, March 19. Fialova declined to specify any further details to the TASR newswire, as it is required to maintain secrecy on this matter. By submitting its results, ÚVO has met a request made by NKÚ in late 2008 to carry out an investigation related to this tender for the provision of information and educational and legal activities, plus interpreting and translation services linked to Operational Programmes of the ministry, some of which are co-financed with EU funds. The media cast doubt on the tender last year, noting that the tender was only announced on a bulletin board at the ministry. The ministry, headed by Marian Janušek, a Slovak National Party (SNS) nominee, then signed contracts worth €120 million with a consortium including two companies, Avocat and Zamedia, which are said to be close to SNS party leader Ján Slota. It has been alleged that the tender was only for show, with an intention of providing direct orders for the aforementioned companies from the very beginning. The chairman of the opposition Christian Democrat party, Pavol Hrušovský, said earlier during the week of March 16 that the opposition parties will seek an extraordinary parliamentary session to hold a no-confidence motion on Janušek. No date for such a session has been scheduled. TASR
Milk producers say retail chains prefer foreign dairy products
Slovak milk and dairy products should be more widely represented on the shelves of large retail chains doing business in Slovakia, according to the Slovak Agriculture and Food Chamber (SPPK). Its chairman, Milan Semančík, provided the TASR newswire with the results of a supply-chain survey it conducted at Tesco hypermarkets, at the Lidl discount chain and at CO-OP Jednota stores in Bratislava between March 10 and 17. The survey showed that only 41.9 percent of total dairy products in the stores were domestically produced. According to Semančík, this could be one of the reasons why milk consumption is low in Slovakia, one of the lowest in the EU, in fact. “We are, with justification, asking for a higher representation of Slovak food products on store counters,” said Semančík. SPPK found that the lowest share of Slovak dairy products was in Lidl stores – just 19.5 percent, with German and Czech products making up as much as 63.7 percent.
SNS party objects to report on racism in Slovakia
The Slovak National Party (SNS) said on March 19 that the Council of Europe’s (COE) report on racism and intolerance in Slovakia is “not objective, is untrue and grossly harms Slovakia's image” the TASR newswire wrote.
Statistics Office says presidential balloting is secure
The chair of Slovakia's Statistics Office, Ľudmila Benkovičová, said in Bratislava on March 19 that she rejects any possibility of forgery or foul play involving the results of this weekend’s presidential election. The first round of the presidential election will be held on Saturday, March 21 and a second round, if required, is scheduled for two weeks later on April 4. “There have never been any questions regarding the manipulation of results at the level of the Statistics Office. They actually cannot be manipulated because we exclusively record the data brought to us by the chairs of district electoral commissions or the data that the relevant electoral commission signs for us,” Benkovičová pointed out.
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