BRATISLAVA, March 2, (WEBNOVINY) – If parliamentary elections were held “tomorrow”, the current coalition would not be able to form the government, shows the latest survey of MEDIAN SK. The agency surveyed 1,093 respondents aged 18 to 79 from January 3 to 30. According to its outcome, the SDKU-DS would win 16.9 percent of votes, KDH 11.6 percent, SaS 8.4 percent and MOST-HID 7.1 percent. The opposition SMER-SD would garner the support of 39.7 percent and SNS of 5.7 percent of those polled, informed MEDIAN SK director Jindrich Bardon.
Comparing the latest survey results with the outcome of the June 2010 elections, KDH’s result improved the most in the survey, from 8.5 percent in June. The SDKU-DS would gain more support in January, too, as in June it won 15.4 percent of the vote. The strongest coalition party however improved also from the previous survey, in which it would get 14.6 percent. Preferences for the SaS and MOST-HID parties fell.
The support for SMER-SD in January was two percentage points lower than in the previous poll conducted in November and December. SMER received the same portion of the vote in July, right after the parliamentary elections. The opposition SNS would get fewer votes than in the previous two surveys, when it won 7.8 percent. The former member of the ruling coalition and now non-parliamentary LS-HZDS posted an increase in preferences to 4.1 percent. It is the first time since the June elections that the party garnered more than four percent of the vote.
Based on the survey results, the opposition SMER-SD party would occupy 67 seats in the parliament, SNS 10, which would together be a majority of 77 seats. The current ruling coalition would get a total of 73 seats, when SDKU-DS would have 28, KDH 19, SaS 14 and MOST-HID 12 mandates.
Thirty-seven percent of those polled said they would definitely participate in the elections if held the next day while 28.2 percent said they would probably cast their votes. 7.8 percent of respondents leaned toward not participating in the elections, and 23.7 percent were decided not to take part.
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