Hungarian Alliance Opens Talks with Slovak Opposition Parties

The Hungarian Alliance, Slovakia's main ethnic Hungarian political party, announced it will initiate negotiations with opposition parties after recently ruling out cooperation with the governing Smer-SD social-democratic party and the far-right Republic party. Party leader László Gubík said they would engage with what he described as "Christian democrats" and "liberals" without specifying which parties, though he has already held informal meetings with Milan Majerský, leader of the Christian Democratic Movement (KDH), a center-right opposition party. The move signals a potential realignment for the Hungarian Alliance, which represents Slovakia's ethnic Hungarian minority and has previously been part of various coalition governments.