https://apnews.com/article/slovakia-parliamentary-election-15902118682938d08c24ff7d0269656a

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A populist former prime minister who campaigned on a pro-Russian and anti-American message looked to be heading for victory in early parliamentary elections in Slovakia, according to preliminary results early Sunday.

With results from almost 88% of about 6,000 polling stations counted by the Slovak Statistics Office, former Prime Minister Robert Fico and his leftist Smer, or Direction, party led with 23.7 % of the vote.

A liberal, pro-West newcomer, the Progressive Slovakia party, was a distant second with 15.6% of the votes cast Saturday.

The election was a test for the small eastern European country’s support for neighboring Ukraine in its war with Russia, and a win by Fico could strain a fragile unity in the European Union and NATO.

He proposes that instead of sending arms to Kyiv, the EU and the U.S. should use their influence to force Russia and Ukraine to strike a compromise peace deal. He has repeated Russian President Vladimir Putin’s unsupported claim that the Ukrainian government runs a Nazi state.

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It was in effect a referendum on supporting Ukraine, NATO, America and the EU or supporting Russia.

I do like the way the BBC continues to parrot the western narrative that it's an unsupported claim that Ukrainian government runs a Nazi state. It's clearly not unsupported; Turkey, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, the African Union and others, can see that it is, as can Russia, as can America's right wing.

Things are likely to get difficult for NATO and the EU as members increasingly turn against their support for Biden's War on Russia using Ukraine as sacrificial pawns.