Election
(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.
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