Slovakia’s leftist ruling party, led by Prime Minister Robert Fico, has won general elections on an anti-refugee platform, but lost its majority in the parliament, preliminary results show.

Fico’s Smer-Social Democrats (Smer-SD) party has taken 27.3 percent of the vote or 45 seats in the country’s 150-seat legislature, compared to its current 83-seat majority, according to an exit poll by the private Markiza TV station, which was released on Sunday.

The liberal Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) party and conservative OLANO-NOVA hold second and third places with 13.3 percent (22 seats) and 11.2 percent (18 seats), respectively.

A total of nine parties appear to be securing seats, including the far-right Slovak National Party (SNS) with eight percent (13 seats) of votes, according to the poll.

The results indicate that Fico needs to find coalition partners to return for a third term in office. The premier has described the partial results as “a big mishmash.”

Fico has hardline views on refugees as he has pledged to “never bring even a single Muslim to Slovakia,” and is fiercely opposed the European Union (EU)-wide plan to re-distribute asylum seekers across the 28-nation bloc.

Recently, Fico said Greece should be “sacrificed” and kicked out of the passport-free Schengen zone to stop asylum seekers arriving on its shores from entering the rest of the EU.

The Greece government hit back, accusing the Slovakian prime minister of running “his election campaign with vitriol and human drama.”

Slovakia, a member of NATO and the Eurozone, only received 260 asylum requests last year. The central European state will take over the EU’s rotating presidency for six months in July.

Commenting on the election results, Igor Matovic, leader of the OLANO-NOVA party said, “This is a big earthquake.”

Political analyst Samuel Abraham also said the process of forming a coalition government “could take weeks, even months.”

This is while public sector workers such as nurses and teachers feel they are left behind by Slovakia’s economic success and have staged strikes demanding wage hikes.