Pro-Russia candidate and opposition party leader Robert Fico, already a two-time prime minister of Slovakia, is running No. 1 in polling ahead of Saturday's snap election in the NATO country, a result that would have major consequences for neighboring Ukraine.
Fico has asserted that not "another round of ammunition" will be sent to Ukraine if he's elected prime minister, while he also opposes Ukraine's bid to join NATO. Further, Fico has thrown his support behind Russia, calling his stance one of "peace" while blaming the country's incursion in Ukraine on Nazis and fascists, echoing Russian President Vladimir Putin's justification, widely dismissed as propaganda, for invading.
Fico "and his allies argue that we shouldn't be sending weapons to Ukraine because it will make the war go on for longer. They are saying 'there will be peace if we stop sending weapons to Ukraine' because if we don't the conflict will end sooner. So, in essence, they are not pro-peace, they are pro-Russian," Slovakian political analyst Grigorij Meseznikov told CNN.
"He will prove to be a tough partner driven by revenge," Milan Nic, a Slovak analyst at the German Council on Foreign Relations, told Politico EU. "It's more about psychology."
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