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Weekend: Populist party wins Slovakia election but needs allies for coalition

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Populist party wins Slovakia election but needs allies for coalition

01/10/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Populist party wins Slovakia election but needs allies for coalition

The pro-Moscow former Prime Minister Robert Fico promised to end military aid to Ukraine

The pro-Moscow former Prime Minister Robert Fico promised to end military aid to Ukraine.

With counting almost completed in Slovakia's general election, the party of former prime minister Robert Fico looks set to win the most votes. The pro-Moscow populist promised to end military aid to Ukraine in a campaign that was marked by high volumes of online disinformation.

Also in the programme: a new two-part version of the Hindu epic The Mahabharata is being performed in Canada; and the United Nations is sending a team to Nagorno-Karabakh to assess the humanitarian needs in the Caucasus enclave.

Joining Krupa Padhy to discuss this and more are Christina Lamb, who is chief foreign correspondent for Britain's Sunday Times newspaper, and Silo Boccanera who is a Brazilian journalist based in London.

(Picture: Robert Fico, the leader of the Smer-SSD party, walks outside his party's headquarters on the day of Slovakia's early parliamentary election. Credit: REUTERS/Eva Korinkova)

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