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Poland’s 2025 Presidential Race: Tusk’s Patriotic Gamble
21 April 2025
Polls for autumn’s election have the former PM and populist Robert Fico’s party in the lead. Hoping to continue the momentum, Fico and his allies are disseminating disinformation and sowing confusion in Slovak society, following many well-known Russian narratives.
In the latest of his attacks against the “elites” in Bratislava and Brussels, Slovakia’s populist, former PM Robert Fico accused NATO of allegedly launching a campaign in Slovakia to “turn” the electorate of his Smer-SD party ahead of the 30 September early elections. Fico went further to say NATO was being aided by Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová and the former cabinet members of Eduard Heger’s administration.
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In doing so, Fico is attempting to prey on analysts, state officials and politicians who have been ringing alarm bells that it is Fico and the Smer-SD party which has become an instrument of pro-Kremlin propaganda, spreading Russian propaganda on television, social media and most importantly, in the mainstream politics.