Slovakia accuses Moscow of interfering in elections and summons Russian embassy representative
Naryshkin said the United States will manipulate the election results in the country
On October 2, the Slovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that it had summoned a representative of the Russian Embassy to protest Moscow's "unacceptable interference" in the Slovak parliamentary elections.
This was in response to a statement by the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin, published on the eve of the September 30 election.
Naryshkin said that the United States would manipulate the election results.
The Slovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs called this statement "deliberately spread disinformation" aimed at interfering with the electoral process.
On September 30, the election was won by the party of former Prime Minister Robert Fico, who promised to stop military aid to Ukraine.
In an interview with The Insider, Pavel Havlicek, an analyst at the Czech think tank Association for International Relations (AMO), said that Fico's government will focus on energy and domestic policy rather than foreign policy, but his coming to power could have negative consequences for Ukraine.
Background. In the Slovak parliamentary elections, the Party for a Course in Social Democracy (SMER), headed by former Prime Minister Robert Fico, won the most support (almost 24%). Now the politician, who opposes military aid to Ukraine, is to form a coalition government.
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