Slovak PM's party wins election, but opposition has majority
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Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico's Smer-Social Democratic party won 34.79 percent of the votes in Saturday's general election, the largest share, according to results released by the Slovak Statistical Office on Sunday.
The main opposition party SDKU-DS party came in second with 15.42 percent of the cast ballots, or 28 seats, followed the 12.14 percent won by the extra-parliamentary Freedom and Solidarity (SaS).
The Christian Democratic Movement (KDH) and the Slovak-Hungarian Most-Hid party got roughly the same portion of the vote, which amounted to 8.52 percent and 8.12 percent respectively.
The Slovak National Party (SNS) scored only 5.07 percent of the vote, barely over the five-percent threshold needed to win representation in the nation's parliament.
The four rightist parties announced earlier in the day that they would negotiate on forming a government as early as Sunday. The new coalition would have 79 seats in 150-seat Parliament.
Nevertheless, Fico called the result an "absolute success" that gave him the right to try to form a government.
"If we fail, we will respect a right-wing government, and become a tough opposition," he added.
The turnout of the election reached 58.83 percent, registering an increase compared with the 54.67 percent of the 2006 election.
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