Slovakia Deals Setback to Neo-Fascist Candidate<br />Andrej Kiska said that We don’t want to leave.<br />ed the threat of extremism a lot more and they’ve expressed it." Mr. Lesko also said he believed<br />that voters had grown tired of the Smer party. that Compared to four years ago, Slovaks have realiz<br />5, 2017<br />TREBISOV, Slovakia — Voters have handed a defeat to the most prominent neo-fascist politician in Slovakia, refusing to re-elect the anti-European<br />Union candidate Marian Kotleba as governor of the region of Banska Bystrica, the results of regional elections showed early Sunday.<br />Mr. Kotleba was first elected governor of Banska Bystrica, in central Slovakia, in 2013<br />and became a member of Slovakia’s national Parliament three years later, along with 13 other members of his party, known as Kotleba — People’s Party Our Slovakia.<br />In another sign that change was the biggest winner in balloting on Saturday, four members of Prime Minister<br />Robert Fico’s leftist Smer-Social Democracy Party were also defeated for election as regional governors.<br />" Mr. Lunter said Saturday night. that First thing I will do in the governor’s office will be<br />that I’ll open all the doors and windows and let in some fresh air,
