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Slovakia’s Smer and Hlas suspended from Party of European Socialists

2023/12/13
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Slovakia – After the victory of Robert Fico on early elections held on September 30, Slovakia’s two social democratic parties – Smer-SD and Hlas-SD of former PM Robert Fico and Peter Pellegrini, respectively – agreed on coalition with SNS, the Slovak National Party. The Party of European Socialists (PES) has therefore decided to suspend their membership (or associate membership, in the case of Hlas-SD, originally a scission of Smer-SD).

Moving away from the “values” of the European Socialists. According to the press release of PES, “This step has been taken following the clear divergence from the values of the PES family demonstrated by Smer-SD leader Robert Fico.And additionally, as a result of concerns raised following the announcement of a government coalition between Smer-SD, Hlas-SD, and a radical-right party.”

Besides the coalition agreement with a party considered by the PES to be far-right, the European Socialists are criticizing Smer for its positions on the Ukrainian war (considered to be pro-Russian) as well as on immigration and the LGBT agenda.A “worrying” rethoric. Pedro Marques, vice-president of the Socialists and Democrats group in the European Parliament, said he was “concerned by Robert Fico’s rhetoric”.

If this rhetoric continues and turns into action, a process of sanctions can begin, and exclusion is possible.” The S&D group in the European Parliament fully supported the PES’ decision, and its leader, Iratxe Garcia Perez, explained: “This is a necessary step. As president of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament, I’ll be discussing the situation of the Slovak MEPs in my group next week.” The three Smer-SD parliamentarians, Monika Beňová, Robert Hajšel, and Katarína Roth Neveďalová, are to be suspended from the group as of next week.

Hlas-SD spokeswoman Patrícia Medveď Macíková expressed surprise at the PES’ decision: “We are firmly convinced that the Party of European Socialists will reconsider its decision and that negotiations on Hlas-SD’s membership in this political group will continue.” One of the most high-profiled cases in recent times in which a party was ousted from its party group came when in 2021 when Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party decided to leave the EPP after that party group had signalled that it was about to expel the Hungarian party

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