Fico's 'success' stems from 'failures' of Matovič govt rife with 'personal rivalries & hostilities'
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Slovakia's leftist election winner Robert Fico will get a mandate on Monday to begin talks on a governing coalition after steering his party to an election victory over the weekend with promises to stop military aid to Ukraine. Fico campaigned on rhetoric that would shift Slovakia close to Hungary as European Union countries challenging the EU consensus on Ukraine, although the presence of HLAS in the next government would exert a moderating factor avoiding any sharp policy turn. For more on the pro-Russia firebrand former prime minister, FRANCE 24's Genie Godula is joined by Lukáš Macek, Director of the Dijon campus of Sciences Po and Head of the Centre Grande Europe & Research Fellow, Central and Eastern Europe, at the Jacques Delors Institute.