The Slovak elections were the third to be held in the last week. The share of the vote for Prime Minister Robert Fico’s Smer (Social Democrats) went up from 29 to 35 percent; however that of his nationalist coalition partners went down, with one of them failing to get into Parliament at all. This means that an assortment of everyone else except Smer and the Slovak nationalists will form a government, despite a swing towards the social democrats.

So who is everyone else? The two “old” Christian Democratic parties, the SDKU-DS and the KDH, whose vote share actually went down, will be base of the new government reaching 24 percent of the vote between them. Their partners will be a new Conservative-Liberal party called Freedom and Solidarity (SAS) with 12 percent and a new Hungarian ethnic party called Bridge, with 8 percent. Bridge replaces a previous Hungarian nationalist grouping, which failed to reach the 5 percent threshold to get into parliament.