Slovak President Asks eftist Prime Minister Robert Fico to form a coalition Govt Monday March 07,2016

Slovak President Asks eftist Prime Minister Robert Fico to form a coalition Govt
Slovakia's president on Monday March 07,2016 asked leftist Prime Minister Robert Fico, who won weekend elections but lost his parliamentary majority, to try to form a coalition government.

"I have decided, after the first round of talks, to entrust the chairman of the Smer party, which won the most votes in the elections, with the formation of a government and a majority coalition, which would back such a government," President Andrej Kiska announced.

Results from Sunday's elections showed Fico's Smer-Social Democrats (Smer-SD) party had won 49 seats, down sharply from its comfortable 83-seat majority in the 150-member parliament.

The liberal Freedom and Solidarity SaS came second with 21 seats, followed by the conservative OLANO-NOVA which took 19 seats

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Direction-Social Democracy(SMER)	737,481	28.28	49	–34
Freedom and Solidarity	315,558	12.10	21	+10
OL'ANO-NOVA	287,611	11.03	19	+3
Slovak National Party	225,386	8.64	15	+15
Kotleba - People's Party Our Slovakia (LSNS)	209,779	8.04	14	+14
We Are a FAmily	172,860	6.63	11	New
Most-Hid	169,593	6.50	11	–2
Network	146,205	5.61	10	New
Christian Democratic Movement	128,908	4.94	0	–16
Party of the Hungarian Community	105,495	4.05	0	0
Slovak Civic Coalition	21,785	0.84	0	New
TIP Party	18,845	0.72	0	New
Green Party	17,541	0.67	0	0
Communist Party of Slovakia	16,278	0.62	0	0
Slovak Democratic & Chrisitian Union	6,938	0.27	0	–11
CHANCE	6,522	0.25	0	New
Party of Modern Slovakia	4,559	0.17	0	New
Direct Democracy Party	3,595	0.14	0	New
Courage – Great National and Pro-Russian Coalition	3,428	0.13	0	New
Resistance – Labor Party	3,182	0.12	0	New
Hungarian Christian Democratic Alliance	2,426	0.09	0	New
Democratic Party - Ľudo Kaník	1,998	0.08	0	New
Coalition – Together for Slovakia	1,777	0.07	0	New
Invalid/blank votes	20,798	–	–	–
Total	2,648,184	100	150	0
Registered voters/turnout	4,426,760	59.82	–