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Slovak President gives PM chance to create new gov't

Xinhua, March 7, 2016 Adjust font size:

Slovak President Andrej Kiska is to task Prime Minister and Smer-SD leader Robert Fico with attempting to create a new government, it was announced at the press conference here on Monday.

Kiska at the same time pointed to the complicated situation that has arisen from Saturday's general election.

"There are different results from what most of the parties expected. There are several new parties, including radical political extremism in uniform," stressed Kiska.

Kiska is to meet six leaders of parties that were elected to parliament.

"I'd like to know how the party chairs view the possibility of creating a stable majority. The situation is complicated, and that's why I want to proceed systematically in order to find out which options we have and which we don't," explained Kiska.

According to the official result, the general election was won by the Smer-SD party with 28 percent of the vote. Second came Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) with 12 percent, followed by Ordinary People-NOVA (OLaNo-NOVA) with 11 percent.

Five other parties and coalitions made it into parliament, each with under 10 percent of voter support. Voter turnout was 59.82 percent. Endit