Slovak neo-Nazi leader defeated in regional election
Source: Associated Press
Updated 3:30 am, Sunday, November 5, 2017
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia's neo-Nazi parliamentary party suffered a blow after its chairman failed to get re-elected as the head of a regional government, according released Sunday.
Marian Kotleba heads People's Party Our Slovakia, which openly admires the Nazi puppet state that the country was during World War II. Party members use Nazi salutes, consider NATO a terror group and want the country out of the alliance and the European Union.
Four years ago, Kotleba shocked the country by winning in the central region of Banska Bystrica.
But in the regional election on Saturday, independent candidate Jan Lunter won the region with 48.5 percent of the vote, comprehensively beating Kotleba, who received 23.2 percent, Slovakia's Statistics Office said.
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