BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — Slovakia’s neo-Nazi parliamentary party suffered a blow after its chairman failed to get re-elected as the head of a regional government, according released Sunday. Marian Kotleba heads People’s Party Our Slovakia, which openly admires the Nazi puppet state that the country was during World War II. But in the regional election on Saturday, independent candidate Jan Lunter won the region with 48.5 per cent of the vote, comprehensively beating Kotleba, who received 23.2 per cent, Slovakia’s Statistics Office said. The results from Saturday’s election were also a blow for the leftist Smer-Social Democracy of Prime Minister Robert Fico. Hit by corruption scandals, Fico’s party only won in two regions, down from six they claimed in the 2013 vote.

Source: National Post November 05, 2017 08:37 UTC