BRATISLAVA, Slovakia: Slovakia's recent shift towards Russia has hit a hurdle, analysts said on Sunday , after the pro-West former foreign minister Ivan Korcok topped the first round of the presidential election.
But"no polls expected Korcok to score a five-point lead over his rival," Tomas Koziak, a political analyst at the University of International Business ISM, told AFP.The runoff will feature a showdown between Korcok's liberalism and Pellegrini's attachment to the Russian-leaning governing team of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico.
"If Korcok is elected, Slovakia will maintain a critical attitude towards Russia, pro-European positions and support for Ukraine," said Grigorij Meseznikov, head of the Bratislava-based Institute for Public Affairs. "There is a chance that the Orbanisation of Slovakia may not be accomplished" if Korcok wins, Koziak said.
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