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UK Accused of Meddling in Slovak Elections with £10M Influence Campaign
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has accused the UK Foreign Office of funding an influence campaign against his party during the 2023 parliamentary elections. According to Fico, the UK government signed a contract worth nearly £10 million with the London-based Zinc Network to support political activism in Central and Eastern Europe, including Slovakia. The campaign is alleged to have favoured the Progressive Slovakia party (PS). Fico called it…
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico accused the British government and some journalists of involvement in an election campaign that he said was intended to damage his Smer-SD party and help Progressive Slovakia (PS) during last year's parliamentary elections. London rejected Fico's claims.
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said today that the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Department paid politically influential people through a media agency to influence the 2023 Slovak general election to the detriment of his Smer-SD party, and in favor of Progressive Slovakia (PS).
After Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico on Tuesday accused Britain of interfering in the 2023 Slovak parliamentary elections through a London-based media company, Slovak police on Wednesday launched an investigation into the unauthorized use of funds from European Union sources. This is not the first time that Fico has tried to follow Viktor Orbán's sovereignty protection campaigns; in early June, a law was passed under the pretext of transparen…
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has accused the British Foreign Office of paying influencers through a media agency to influence the parliamentary elections two years ago to the detriment of his party, Smér-Social Democracy (Smér-SD). Bratislava is therefore summoning the British ambassador. This was reported by Slovak media, according to which the Prime Minister referred to an article by the British investigative platform Declassified UK. How…
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