Slovak Firebrand’s Push to Block Help for Ukraine Hits Trouble
- Pellegrini says he can’t imagine being in same cabinet as Fico
- Fico leads polls after taking anti-US, anti-Ukraine stance
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The potential kingmaker in Slovakia’s fall election criticized his frontrunner rival for anti-US and anti-Ukraine rhetoric and said he would ensure the NATO and European Union country maintains its transatlantic orientation.
Peter Pellegrini, an ex-prime minister who leads the second-place Voice party, said his former boss and ally Robert Fico had vowed to stop military support for neighboring Ukraine and slammed EU sanctions against Russia so that he could win a few more percentage points of popularity in polls.