The Slovak Smir Party rejects attempts to change its positions on the Ukrainian crisis

Bratislava (ST): Robert Vitso, head of the Smir Social Democratic Party, which won the recent parliamentary elections that took place in Slovakia last Saturday, revealed that the leadership of the Socialist Bloc in the European Parliament is trying to pressure the party and blackmail it to change its positions on the war in Ukraine, stressing that “his party is ready to pay the price for the independence of its decision.”

Vitso said in statements: “Instead of being welcomed by the socialist parties in the European Parliament for his party’s success in the elections, he received a blackmail message from the head of the European Socialists Party, Stefan Löfven, warning him that if the party implements the positions it declared on Ukraine after the formation of the government, he will work to separate his party from the bloc of socialist parties in Parliament.”

Vitso added: “It is a truly democratic matter. Either we must say what the United States wants or we will be excluded. When we say that the European Union will have to take the lead in peace, and that it is better to stop the killing and destruction in Ukraine and engage in peace talks, we are described as Warmongers.”

K.Q.