Leftist Party Wins Slovak Elections

Leftist Party Wins Slovak Elections
By ALEKSANDAR VASOVIC, Associated Press Writer

Sunday, June 18, 2006
(06-18) 01:58 PDT BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) --

Slovakia's opposition leftist party won parliamentary elections, tapping into widespread public discontent over eight years of austere economic reforms, authorities said Sunday.

Robert Fico's Smer-Socialist Democratic Party won 29 percent of the votes, compared to 18 percent for Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda's Slovak Democratic and Christian Movement, the state-run Statistical Office announced after counting all the ballots.

Fico's victory was not enough to give his party a parliamentary majority, forcing him to form a coalition government.

But the outcome was a stinging rebuke to Dzurinda's center-right government, which brought the ex-communist nation into the European Union and NATO but slashed health care and social benefits to millions. The result also threw into doubt Slovakia's quest to adopt the euro currency in 2009.
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Seems like those nations that have been trod on by globalization and the IMF-World Bank are moving to the left almost unanimously now.

And it appears like conservatism has proven so bad that this nation will move the same way in the near future.

I have this dream of a world in which fascism has been defeated by the universal declaration that personhood is reserved for people and corporations are reduced to their original status. Corporations that did not contribute to the common good will lose their charters and their stockholders lose their investments. That should guarantee good corporate governance. Can you imagine what would happen to corporate executives that acted like those in power today? Imagine hundreds of thousands of investors suddenly losing all they had in a corporation.

It would bring back public lynching.

But then I've always been a dreamer.