Nordsieck, Wolfram. Slovakia. Parties and Elections in Europe. 2020 [4 March 2020]. (原始内容存档于2016-03-02).
Keating, Michael; McCrone, Davic. The Crisis of Social Democracy in Europe. Edinburgh University Press. 2013: 63. ISBN 978-0-7486-6583-9. Following in the path of the social democratic party Smer in Slovakia, the social democrats in the Czech Republic and Romania are well positioned to benefit from this.
De Sio, Lorenzo; Emanuele, Vincenzo; Maggini, Nicola. The European Parliament Elections of 2014. CISE – Centro Italiano Studi Elettorali. 2014: 245. ISBN 978-88-98012-16-9. The election was won by the ruling social democratic Smer-SD, which got 4 of 13 seats.
Sekerák, Marián. Towards conservatism? Party politics in Slovakia at the end of the 2010s. European View (SAGE). 2019, 18 (2): 238. doi:10.1177/1781685819883965. Moreover, the Social Democratic Smer–SD and the economically liberal SaS both have some elements typical of social conservatism.
Taggart, Paul; Szczerbiak, Aleks. Putting Brexit into perspective: the effect of the Eurozone and migration crises and Brexit on Euroscepticism in European states. Journal of European Public Policy (Taylor & Francis). 2018, 25 (8): 120. doi:10.1080/13501763.2018.1467955. This brought (Soft) Euroscepticism into the core of the party system involving not just right-wing conservative parties such as Law and Justice in Poland and Fidesz in Hungary, but centre-left governing parties such as the Czech Social Democrats and the social democratic Smer (Direction) party in Slovakia.
Henley, Jon. Who is Robert Fico?. The Guardian. 15 May 2024. He was Slovakia’s representative to the European court of human rights from 1994 to 2000 and set up his centre-left Smer-SD party in 1999 after being turned down for a ministerial post by the Democratic Left, the Communists’ political heirs.
Gyárfášová, Oľga. Explaining the popularity of the extreme right in Slovakia. Friends of Europe. 11 February 2020 [2025-01-01]. (原始内容存档于2025-03-02). Slovakia is approaching critical parliamentary elections. On 29 February voters will decide whether the main centre-left coalition party Smer-SD – which has led governments almost uninterrupted since 2006 – will stay in power, or whether the predominantly liberal opposition will force a change in government.
Ogrodnik, Łukasz. Slovak Parliamentary Elections. Polish Institute of International Affairs. 28 February 2020. Elections in Slovakia to the National Council, scheduled for 29 February, will likely confirm the continued falling support for the centre-left Smer-Social Democracy (Smer).
Hovet, Jason. Slovakia's populist ex-PM Fico seals coalition deal for new government. Reuters. Prague. 16 October 2023 [2025-01-01]. (原始内容存档于2023-10-30). Fico's leftist, populist SMER-SSD (Direction-Slovak Social Democracy) struck a deal last week with the centre-left HLAS (Voice) and nationalist Slovak National Party (SNS) to form a coalition that will have 79 out of 150 seats in parliament.
Nicholson, Tom; Hülsemann, Laura. New government emerges in Slovakia, with Robert Fico as prime minister. Politico. 11 October 2023 [2025-01-01]. (原始内容存档于2023-10-11). Following Tuesday’s announcement by the social democratic Hlas (Voice) party, which finished third in the September 30 election with 14.7 percent, that it would focus on coalition talks with leftist-populist Smer (Direction), the victor of the ballot with 23 percent, the two parties on Wednesday announced agreement on forming a ruling coalition.