Reply #27: Slovakia: Economy Focus of Slovak Elections

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Economy focus of Slovak elections

Saturday, June 17, 2006 Posted: 1506 GMT (2306 HKT)


Slovak Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) -- Slovaks cast ballots Saturday in a parliamentary vote that will determine whether the EU country continues its economic reforms praised abroad, or it will tip on a softer economic course that could delay its adoption of the euro currency in 2009.

Slovakia's main opposition Smer-Socialist Democratic Party led by Robert Fico was expected to win the balloting with 28 percent of votes, 4 percent less than polls showed earlier this month, according to a survey conducted by the Bratislava-based MVK agency last week.

Fico said he was confident in his party's election victory after casting his ballot at a polling station in a village of Aleksince, northeast of the capital, Bratislava.

"I didn't vote for myself. One does not do that and it is not necessary anyway," he said.

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