Slovak Opposition Party Smer Won Parliamentary Elections Gaining 23.6%

The Smer-SSD party had a clear lead with almost 25% of the vote despite exit polls suggesting victory by a liberal centrist party:

The opposition Direction – Social Democracy party (Smer), led by former Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, won the parliamentary elections with 23.58% of the vote, data from the Slovak Statistical Office showed on Sunday.

At the moment, data from 95.75% of polling stations has been processed.

The second place with 16.37% of the votes is occupied by the Progressive Slovakia party, followed by the Voice – Social Democracy party, which received 15.22% of the votes.

Official election results are expected to be announced on Sunday afternoon.

Smer has pledged an immediate end to military support for Ukraine.