With over 21% of the votes, in fact, Kotleba has earned the right to challenge, in the second round, Ludovit Kanik, the current governor Social Democratic, who received 40% of votes. As can be satisfied, Robert Fico, Slovak Prime Minister and current spearhead of the same SMER (Social Democratic Party, to be precise), can certainly not deny the obvious and which is that, in spite of the circumstances, the " long-awaited breakthrough " before the election is not happened: five candidates out of eight were sent back to the ballot in November 23, getting almost anywhere percentage of just over 30%. However, the success of Kotleba, especially when coupled with disarming statistics on abstention, it appears, from many points of view, as the true litmus test of the state of affairs within the EU Member States. There is a talk of alienation from politics since 200, but since then, despite the recent economic success of the country, nothing has changed, and the excuse of lack of information, advanced by many members of the government, then, as the mayor of Malacky, the European city with the lowest rate of participation across the continent, has repeatedly pointed out, is not credible. The Parliament is felt as distant, therefore incapable of being established as an expression of the needs of individual citizens and the traditional parties are often considered to be more attentive to the dictates of Brussels that the aspirations of their constituents; an issue that has always been considered fertile for every populist rhetoric. It is no coincidence that where voter turnout proves the highest in the nation, in Banska Bystrica, voters have chosen Kotleba as spokesman.

The Slovaks feel part of a “small” country, in aspirations and carat weight, unable to change the course of European history, then what better option than to leave the eurozone (leitmotiv of Euroscepticism) and direct their efforts to internal problems such as unemployment and corruption? Whether they like it or not, however, Slovakia has already started to affect Europe for a long time, becoming one of the leading manufacturing hearts Union, acquiring, in 2012 alone, orders for approximately € 3 billion and an increase in GDP since 1993 approximately 29%. What might happen, therefore, in a country like this, where the extremist populist movements were to continue to reap success? This could mean, of course, a case capable of generating a precedent that encourages homonyms movements all over the eastern quadrant, where they already rule the example of Orbán, landmark nationalists from all over Europe, as well as encourage the slow closing in themselves which would mean the end of the European Union itself, in addition to his already faltering economy.

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