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[...] or the nationalist-conservative left (such as the Slovak Smer government).
In Eastern Europe, explicitly left-authoritarian positions are more common, even among major parties, such as Poland's PiS,Hungary's FIDESZ, Bulgaria's Socialist Party or Slovakia's Smer.
In recent years, the left of the political spectrum in the Czech and Slovak party systems has undergone significant changes. The main anti-establishment party in Czechia, ANO, has shifted its economic programme to incorporate more inter-ventionist policies, while the main social-democratic party in Slovakia, Smer-SD, has progressively adopted more conservative social positions.
In 1999, he became chairman of the left-wing nationalist Smer (Direction) party, where he has been a leading figure ever since.
In his fourth tour of duty as PM, the leftist-populist Smer party boss is expected to travel to this week's meeting of EU leaders in Brussels.
Fico's leftist, populist SMER-SSD (Direction-Slovak Social Democracy) struck a deal last week with the centre-left HLAS (Voice) and nationalist Slovak National Party (SNS) to form a coalition that will have 79 out of 150 seats in parliament.
In Eastern Europe, explicitly left-authoritarian positions are more common, even among major parties, such as Poland's PiS,Hungary's FIDESZ, Bulgaria's Socialist Party or Slovakia's Smer.
He was Slovakia's representative to the European court of human rights from 1994 to 2000 and set up his centre-left Smer-SD party in 1999 after being turned down for a ministerial post by the Democratic Left, the Communists' political heirs.
