We're not pro-Putin, we're just anti-war, says incoming Slovak government as populist Robert Fico wins national elections.
We’re not pro-Putin, we’re just anti-war, claims incoming Slovak government as left-wing-populist Robert Fico wins national elections on a promise to suspend deliveries of military aid to Ukraine.
Robert Fico, the anti-mass-migration, anti-coronavirus lockdown two-time Prime Minister of Slovakia won the national elections at the weekend at the head of his left-wing party and will soon attempt to form a coalition government, returning to power again on a populist platform vowing to disentangle the nation from the war in Ukraine, which borders Slovakia to the east. Media reports have called this a propaganda coup for Putin by the “pro-Russian” Fico.
Despite almost universal agreement in media reports that his party is clearly Russophile, Fico’s allies deny these claims and say they will continue to support Ukraine, just not with military equipment.Robert Kalinak, who was Fico’s deputy Prime Minister and who is described as being part of his “inner circle”
, and said of the allegations against the election winner: “…we are not pro-Russian, but pro-Slovak. Although we will no longer supply weapons to Ukraine, we will continue to support them with humanitarian aid… We must try to achieve peace in Ukraine. And that is doable.” Explaining their position, Kalinak said in remarks that might confound the otherwise uncompromising view of his party held by some observers, saying they are pro-Europe, supported Ukraine joining the European Union, but opposed them joining NATO as that would be “dangerous”.the remarks of Fico himself, made after the results came in, when he said: “Slovakia and the people in Slovakia have bigger problems than [dealing with] Ukraine”.
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