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🗓️ 2 October 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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0:00.0 | All right, Alexander, let's talk about the election results in Slovakia. |
0:05.8 | The Smer party led by Robert Fizzo, and I think I'm pronouncing that correct. |
0:14.4 | They came out on top, but they don't have a majority. |
0:18.0 | This was expected. |
0:18.8 | No one was expecting them to have a majority. |
0:22.0 | Anyway, but they did end up with around 24%. |
0:26.3 | And now they have to form a parliament. |
0:29.8 | They have to form a coalition. |
0:31.0 | Sorry, they have to form a coalition to govern. |
0:33.3 | And the panic is setting in throughout the Coll West because Robert Fitchso, he has openly said that Slovakia will not send any more money and any more weapons to Ukraine. |
0:48.7 | Actually, that was his campaign slogan pretty much was no more weapons and money to Ukraine. And I think this is significant. |
0:58.3 | I think this is a big deal, even though Slovakia is a small country. There are many analysts who say |
1:03.9 | that it's not really that important if they're not going to provide weapons and money to Ukraine |
1:08.1 | because they've already been pretty much demilitarized. They've already provided whatever they can provide so they really don't have much more to give. |
1:16.4 | I can see their point of view, but I think it's significant from the standpoint of the fracturing of |
1:25.3 | EU solidarity. |
1:27.1 | You had Hungary, and Hungary was the only country that was |
1:31.5 | saying no more weapons, no more money to Ukraine. We need a ceasefire. We need peace. We need this to |
1:37.8 | end. We've gone from one now to two, if they can form a government, from one to two. And you have Poland as well, who's always |
1:48.3 | supportive of Ukraine, Project Ukraine, and they have an election in two, three weeks. And you can see |
1:54.3 | the Law and Justice Party. They're distancing themselves from Zelensky and from Ukraine because |
2:00.4 | the public opinion in Poland, |
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