SMK misses EP threshold by whisker; sees situation as 'ever more serious'

The ethnic-Hungarian SMK party, which missed out on having a candidate elected to the European Parliament on Saturday by a whisker and has been outside Slovakia's Parliament for nine years, said on Monday that the situation is getting "ever more serious", so a congress will be convened to analyse the EP campaign and the elections. "We've failed to achieve a similar result to the one we had five years ago. We know that it's ever more difficult to obtain such a result in our fragmented community," SMK's press department said.