The presidential elections in Slovakia will be decided on April 6 between two candidates: Ivan Korcok, a pro-European diplomat who presents himself as a counterweight to stop the Government’s drift and who won in the first round this Saturday, and the politician Peter Pellegrini, considered a faithful squire of the populist and pro-Russian prime minister. In the five months since he returned to power, Robert Fico has set off alarm bells in Brussels with measures such as a reform of the criminal code, the closure of the Special Prosecutor’s Office that investigated serious crimes and attacks on the media. Those first decisions at the head of the Executive and his anti-Ukraine policy have earned him comparisons with the Hungarian president, Viktor Orbán. The result of the elections can help you consolidate that path or stop it.
The two candidates were tied in the polls for the…
