Meanwhile, In Slovakia

It looks like the right left wing Smer party, headed by former PM Robert Fico has won the parliamentary elections.

This bears note because Fico campaigned on eliminating aid to the Ukraine, and as a skeptic of both Brussels and Washington:

Slovakia’s populist former prime minister, Robert Fico, who campaigned on a pledge to end military aid to Ukraine, has said his position “has not changed” after his party’s clear election win made him favourite to lead the country for a fourth time.

Fico told reporters he was waiting for Slovakia’s president to give him a mandate to start forming a government – expected on Monday – after officials said on Sunday that Smer-SD had scored 22.9% in Saturday’s vote with 99.98% of ballots counted.

Fico said he was ready to open talks with other parties on forming a coalition government. “We’re here, we’re ready, we’ve learned something, we’re more experienced,” he said. “We have clear ideas; we have clear plans.”

The 59-year-old, whose pro-Moscow stance has sparked fears Slovakia will join Hungary and its authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán in challenging the EU’s consensus on support for Kyiv, added: “People in Slovakia have bigger problems than Ukraine.”

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The liberal, pro-western Progressive Slovakia (PS) party finished second on just under 18%, with Hlas – a spin-off from Smer formed after Fico was forced to resign in 2018 amid mass popular protests following the murder of an investigative journalist and his fiancée – third on almost 15%.

The question here will be if Smer and Fico will be able to secure enough coalition partners to secure parliament.

My guess is that there is going to be a full court press from the EU and the United States to prevent this.

(Update)
Note my update on the party.  So part of this is likely a revolt against EU austerity as well.