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Opposition has majority in Slovakia election (AP)

June 13th, 2010

Slovakia's Prime Minister and Chairman of the Social Democratic party Smer Robert Fico looks on after a press conference acknowledging results of the general elections in Bratislava, Slovakia, Sunday, June 13, 2010. The Statistics Office said the governing left-leaning party of Fico was the clear overall winner, with 35.1 percent of the vote, or 63 seats in the 150-seat Parliament with votes from 5,757 of the 5,929 polling stations counted early Sunday. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)AP - The center-right opposition came out ahead in parliamentary elections in Slovakia, dealing a blow to a ruling party that had promised to maintain the country’s welfare state as other European countries hack their budgets.


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