{"id":17695,"date":"2024-04-07T12:46:32","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T12:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/07\/ally-of-slovakias-pro-russian-prime-minister-wins-presidential-election\/"},"modified":"2024-04-07T12:46:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T12:46:32","slug":"ally-of-slovakias-pro-russian-prime-minister-wins-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/07\/ally-of-slovakias-pro-russian-prime-minister-wins-presidential-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Ally of Slovakia\u2019s pro-Russian prime minister wins presidential election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Slovak\u00a0nationalist-left government candidate Peter\u00a0Pellegrini\u00a0emerged victorious in the country\u2019s\u00a0presidential\u00a0election\u00a0on Saturday, solidifying the influence of pro-Russian Prime Minister Robert Fico over\u00a0Slovakia.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Pellegrini, aged 48, emphasized that his win signifies support for the government\u2019s agenda and a rejection of an \u201copportunistic opposition power center,\u201d a reference to outgoing liberal president Zuzana Caputova.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Fico, who began his fourth term last October, has shifted\u00a0Slovakia\u2019s foreign policy towards pro-Russian positions and initiated reforms in criminal law and media regulations, raising concerns about the erosion of the rule of law.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Pellegrini\u00a0secured 53.26% of the vote, while pro-Western opposition candidate Ivan Korcok garnered 46.73%, according to results from 99.66% of voting districts.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Although\u00a0Slovak\u00a0presidents wield limited executive powers, they can veto laws or challenge them in the constitutional court. They also nominate constitutional court judges, potentially shaping political conflicts over Fico\u2019s reforms, which aim to reduce penalties for corruption.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Fico\u2019s coalition, which includes a party led by\u00a0Pellegrini, halted\u00a0Slovakia\u2019s official arms shipments to Ukraine.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Fico has criticized what he perceives as Western interference in the conflict, cautioning against Slavic nations engaging in hostilities with each other.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Pellegrini\u00a0portrayed Korcok as a warmonger due to his support for arming Ukraine and suggested that Korcok might involve\u00a0Slovak\u00a0troops in the neighboring country\u2019s conflict, a claim Korcok refuted.    <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slovak\u00a0nationalist-left government candidate Peter\u00a0Pellegrini\u00a0emerged victorious in the country\u2019s\u00a0presidential\u00a0election\u00a0on Saturday, solidifying the influence of pro-Russian Prime Minister Robert Fico over\u00a0Slovakia. Pellegrini, aged 48, emphasized that his win signifies support for the government\u2019s agenda and a rejection of an \u201copportunistic opposition power center,\u201d a reference to outgoing liberal president Zuzana Caputova. Fico, who began his fourth term <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}