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(source: TASR)

Parliamentary election takes place in Slovakia on February 29, 2020. Read more about the election here

Exit poll results will be published as soon as the moratorium is over, when the polling stations close at 22:00.

The 2020 election in Slovakia is expected to bring a change after two governments dominated by the Smer party of former prime minister Robert Fico, forced to step down in 2018 in the aftermath of the murder of journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kušnírová.

SaS introduced its slate for the upcoming parliamentary election.

SaS approves slate without renegades

Head of parliamentary caucus Natália Blahová has been excluded. Party chair Sulík pushed through his people.

Supreme Court judge Štefan Harabin announces the founding of his political party, Vlasť (Homeland), on October 1, 2019

Supreme Court judge Harabin announces his new party

Harabin’s party may attract the voters of far-right ĽSNS, as well as those of SNS and Smer.

Former Constitutional Court president Ivetta Macejková wants to become a Supreme Court chief.

Who will preside over the Supreme Court?

Four candidates run for the top post at the Supreme Court. The election will be held on September 9.

Ex-president Andrej Kiska has collected 10,000 signatures for registration of his party, Za ľudí.

Who wants to replace Smer and rule in Slovakia?

What's going on in the Slovak opposition.

Michal Truban

Drug-related video may have affected August poll results

Smer remains the strongest party, far right stays in double digits.

Hlohovec Castle

The affluent Slovak town where neo-fascism is vogue

Economically blessed and socially stable, a town in Slovakia has experts rethinking conventional wisdom about what drives people to support the far right.

Parliament changes rules for financing eight months before elections

Ruling coalition relied on the votes of extremists.

European Parliament

EP election campaign in Slovakia: Expensive and boring

The pre-election campaign did not have any educational dimension, the survey by Comenius University in Bratislava suggests.

Miriam Lexmann (centre) and her KDH colleagues

Christian Democrats question the results of the EP election

The party refuses to be the one that should wait for the “Brexit mandate”.

Slovakia’s turnout the lowest in EU again

But it was much higher than five years ago.

EP election in Slovakia

Who are the new Slovak MEPs?

Slovakia will have its first Roma MEP.

European Parliament elections 2019

EP election results: More good news from Slovakia

Slovakia will mark several “firsts” in the next European Parliament.

Illustrative stock photo

Post Bellum calls on people to defend democracy in the EP elections

The EU is in peril, and people should act responsibly and vote, the organisation said.

George Mayer, Marine Le Pen, and Boris Kollár in Bratislava.

When catching up with western Europe is no reason to celebrate

The far right is flexing its muscles in this European election.

Migration as a threat was the most common thread of disinformation being spread before the 2019 EP elections, a GLOBSEC report suggests.

Migration dominates disinformation campaign before EP elections in central Europe

Think tank GLOBSEC examined 45 Facebook pages spreading fake news in Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic.

Leonora of Denmark performs the song "Love Is Forever" during the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest grand final rehearsal in Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, May 17, 2019.

What do European elections and Eurovision have in common?

Votes in the song contest say a lot about how closely attached people feel to the rest of Europe.

Marian Kotleba (white shirt) and his supporters

New liberal coalition enjoys the same support as extremists

Nine parties would make it to the parliament. What would the coalition look like?

European Parliament, illustrative stock photo

How would students vote in the EP election?

The simulated election took place at 206 schools across Slovakia.

Send in the clowns

The poorly attended circus that is the European elections is about to come to town. Enjoy the show – but don’t expect too much of the performers.

President Andrej Kiska

Call of 21 presidents: Europe is the best idea we have ever had

The call issued ahead of the EP election was joined by the Slovak head of state.

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