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Mr Fico plans to scrap the 19-percent flat tax and halt privatisation (Photo: European Commission)

Slovakia takes a turn to the left

Slovakia has decided to turn the wheel from right to left, as the opposition Social Democrats emerged as a convincing winner of the country's Saturday (17 June) elections, the first ballot since EU membership in 2004.

The leftist party Smer (meaning "Direction") secured a third of the representation in the 150-seat Parliament and is likely to end the centre-right government of Mikulas Dzurinda, the longest-serving prime-minister in central Europe.

Mr Dzurinda's SDKU party gathere...

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Mr Fico plans to scrap the 19-percent flat tax and halt privatisation (Photo: European Commission)

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