Slovaks poised to oust ruling Smer party in election clouded by graft


  • World
  • Saturday, 29 Feb 2020

People walk past an election poster of For the People leader Andrej Kiska, ahead of the country's parliamentary election in Bratislava, Slovakia February 28, 2020. The poster reads: "Heads up Bratislava". REUTERS/David W Cerny

BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Voters look poised to oust the centre-left Smer party that has dominated Slovakia's political landscape for more than a decade in a national election on Saturday overshadowed by anger over high-level graft.

Opinion polls ahead of a two-week moratorium before the ballot pointed to a rapid rise for anti-corruption movement Ordinary People (OLANO), increasing chances it may form a centre-right majority with smaller conservative and liberal parties to outmanoeuvre Smer.

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