The Meciet era has ended.
The party that he founded and renamed and led to victory in four general elections failed the required 5% to get into parliament on Saturday. That means that HZDS will not be a party in the Slovak parliament though by Slovak law Mr. Mecier and other individual HZDS members may have a seat. We shall see.
The political pundits have appropriately said it is the end of the Mercier era and they are true. But his influence has roots in other politicians, notable being out-going PM Robert Fico.
I’ll write another post on him soon, but suffice to say a historic moment has happened. Whether the country is smart enough to take note is another question entirely.
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