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| Slovakia election: Anti-migrant PM Fico loses majority | Slovakia election: Anti-migrant PM Fico loses majority |
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| Slovakia's leftist-nationalist Prime Minister Robert Fico has won the general election but lost his parliamentary majority, almost complete results show. | Slovakia's leftist-nationalist Prime Minister Robert Fico has won the general election but lost his parliamentary majority, almost complete results show. |
| Mr Fico will now need to find coalition partners to return for a third term. | Mr Fico will now need to find coalition partners to return for a third term. |
| Gains by small parties, including an extreme right one, may produce a divided parliament with no clear path to forming a majority government. | Gains by small parties, including an extreme right one, may produce a divided parliament with no clear path to forming a majority government. |
| Mr Fico has vowed not to accept "one single Muslim" migrant. | Mr Fico has vowed not to accept "one single Muslim" migrant. |
| His country takes over the EU's rotating presidency in July. His hardline views on migration echo those of Polish, Czech and Hungarian leaders. | His country takes over the EU's rotating presidency in July. His hardline views on migration echo those of Polish, Czech and Hungarian leaders. |
| In all, eight parties, including the far-right People's Party - Our Slovakia led by Marian Kotleba, will be represented in parliament. Our Slovakia won more than 8% of the vote. | |
| The BBC's Rob Cameron in Bratislava says Mr Kotleba is an unrepentant admirer of Slovakia's wartime existence as a Nazi puppet state, and until recently dressed in a uniform modelled on that state's pro-Nazi militia. | The BBC's Rob Cameron in Bratislava says Mr Kotleba is an unrepentant admirer of Slovakia's wartime existence as a Nazi puppet state, and until recently dressed in a uniform modelled on that state's pro-Nazi militia. |
| With about 50% of the vote counted, Mr Fico's Smer-Social Democracy party is on about 29% support, which would give it 48 seats in the 150-member parliament. | With about 50% of the vote counted, Mr Fico's Smer-Social Democracy party is on about 29% support, which would give it 48 seats in the 150-member parliament. |
| As the leader of the strongest party in Saturday's poll, Mr Fico is expected to be asked to form a new government. | As the leader of the strongest party in Saturday's poll, Mr Fico is expected to be asked to form a new government. |
| Mr Fico, 51, is known for populist policies such as free train travel for students and pensioners. | Mr Fico, 51, is known for populist policies such as free train travel for students and pensioners. |
| He has fiercely opposed EU quotas on migrant resettlement from Greece and Italy, which would see his country take about 2,600 people. | He has fiercely opposed EU quotas on migrant resettlement from Greece and Italy, which would see his country take about 2,600 people. |
| Slovakia received only 260 asylum requests last year. | Slovakia received only 260 asylum requests last year. |