Slovak Anti-Corruption Opposition Parties Score Emphatic Election Win

Ordinary People and Independent Personalities (OLaNO) party leader Igor Matovic gestures in front of supporters at his party's headquarters after the country's parliamentary elections, in Trnava, Slovakia, early March 1, 2020. REUTERS/David W Cerny

BRATISLAVA—Slovak opposition led by the Ordinary People party (OLANO) won an emphatic victory in the country’s parliamentary election, as voters angry with graft routed the ruling centre-left Smer that has dominated the political scene for over a decade.

Results from 96.16 percent of voting districts showed on Sunday that OLANO, a politically amorphous, pro-European Union and pro-NATO movement focused on fighting corruption, took 24.95 percent of the vote, far ahead of the ruling Smer with 18.5 percent.