Zeman indirectly backs Fico ahead of Slovak elections

Miloš Zeman says he spoke by phone to Slovak politician Robert Fico ahead of his country’s elections this coming weekend. In a social media post on Wednesday the former Czech president said that it had been an interesting conversation and ended with the word “fingers crossed!”

Czechia’s current head of state, Petr Pavel, has said that a victory for the populist Fico could undermine Czech-Slovak relations.

The former Slovak PM has promised to end military aid to Ukraine, opposes NATO membership for that country and called Slovakia’s president a “US agent”.