Record number of Slovaks living abroad return home to vote in election

Slovaks living abroad are returning to their home country to vote in the general election in record numbers, Pelikan travel agency, the largest airline tickets purveyor in Slovakia, reported on Friday. Demand for airline tickets to Slovakia significantly exceeds that from the period prior to the presidential election. Four in five Slovaks have only bought a one-way ticket. According to Pelikan, the number of Slovaks who have bought airline tickets with arrival to Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest or Kosice for the February 29 weekend is 133 percent higher than in the comparable period before the 2016 general election.