What are Slovaks expecting from Robert Fico’s new government?

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Robert Fico has become Slovakia's new Prime Minister. His left-populist Smer party won against the liberal, Western-oriented Progressive Slovakia by nearly 7 percentage points.

Euronews Hungary took to the streets of Bratislava to find out what are Slovaks expecting from his new government.

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00:00 Robert Fico has become Slovakia`s new prime minister. He`s left populist smear party won

00:05 the national election three and a half weeks ago with 23 percent of the vote, beating the

00:10 liberal western oriented progressive Slovakia by nearly seven percentage points.

00:21 So what are Slovaks expecting from their new government? Euronews Hungary took to the streets

00:26 of Bratislava to find out.

00:30 What we expect economically from the upcoming years is nothing good. So hopefully it won`t

00:36 be that bad as it seems at the moment, demographically speaking as well. So hopefully not too many

00:42 young educated people will leave this country and hopefully there will be no backlash in

00:49 terms of human rights as well.

00:51 We have no money after war in Ukraine and after COVID, but maybe we will have more stable

01:03 government and maybe less anger. I hope so.

01:11 Fico`s full term follows his resignation as PM in 2018 amid mass protests over the murder

01:18 of journalist Jan Kucak, who had been investigating high level corruption. Fico`s political resurrection

01:24 has taken many by surprise. As our correspondent reports.

01:29 Five and a half years ago, it was not thought that Robert Fico would ever become Slovakian

01:35 prime minister. The former prime minister would have liked to form a government as soon

01:40 as possible, so that he could represent Slovakia at the EU summit next week.

01:44 Robert Fico could be one of the key figures of European politics in the coming years,

01:49 as after the change of government, he will be the only European ally of Hungarian Prime

01:55 Minister Viktor Orbán.

01:57 Magyar Attila, Euronews, Bozsony.

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What are Slovaks expecting from Robert Fico’s new government?

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