Poll: Smer on to winning European elections after attack on its chair

After ten years, Smer is close to winning the European elections, according to the latest data from the NMS Market Research Slovakia agency. Support for the current leader of the polls in the European elections, the opposition party Progresívne Slovensko, is no longer growing. Smer is attracting more new voters after the attack on its chair and premier Robert Fico.

The party has been blaming the opposition and the media for the attack since the day it happened. Smer has even used the attack in the campaign. From May 15, when the attack happened, until the end of May, Smer held eleven campaign events titled “For Robert Fico, for Slovakia”.

In Brezno, central Slovakia, pro-Russian Smer MP Ľuboš Blaha has recently held a meeting with Smer voters, where he also talked about the attack. “Today, there is no doubt that the assassin sent love letters to President Čaputová, how beautiful, wonderful, wise and courageous she is. He went to opposition protests, where he shouted ‘Glory to Ukraine!’ And he himself admitted that he tried to assassinate the prime minister only because he has a different opinion about [the public broadcaster] RTVS and similar nonsense,” Blaha said misleadingly, as quoted by the Denník N daily.

The attacker, who did not agree with the government’s selected policies, including the planned cancellation of RTVS and the halting of the Slovak armed forces’ military support of Ukraine, did not send letters to the president. Nor is it enti.