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Slovak President asks PM Fico to form gov't by March 18

Xinhua, March 9, 2016 Adjust font size:

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) was asked by President Andrej Kiska on Wednesday to form a new government with a deadline of March 18 following Saturday's general election.

According to Fico, neither the setting up of a caretaker government, nor a snap election would be appropriate solutions for Slovakia at the moment.

"This would only deepen the chaos," stressed Fico.

Slovakia is now facing the question of whether the chaos and internal political crisis will deepen, or whether the standard political parties will attempt to halt this process in order to ensure at least a dignified representation for Slovakia during its Presidency of the EU Council in the second half of this year, added the prime minister.

At the same time Fico announced that he'll launch talks on creating a governing coalition on the same day. He will meet chairman of Slovak National Party Andrej Danko, while leaders of Most-Hid and Siet, Bela Bugar and Radoslav Prochazka, refused his proposal.

According to the official results published by Slovak Statistical Office, the general election in Slovakia was won by the Smer-SD party of 28.28 percent of vote. Second came Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) with 12.1 percent, followed by Ordinary People-NOVA (OLaNo-NOVA) on 11.02 percent.

The other parties that made it into parliament were the Slovak National Party (SNS) with 8.64 percent, Kotleba-People's Party Our Slovakia with 8.04 percent, We Are Family-Boris Kollar with 6.62 percent, Most-Hid with 6.5 percent and Siet (Network) with 5.6 percent. The voters turnout was 59.82 percent. Endit