BRATISLAVA, June 19, (WEBNOVINY) – Slovakia has a center-right governing coalition of four parties in office for a year now. Nearly half of people evaluate the post-election situation worse than they had expected. This is the result of a survey examining what people think of the government one year after the elections. It was conducted from June 3 to June 9 by the MVK agency on a sample of 1,101 respondents. Approximately every tenth respondent replied that his positive expectations have been precisely fulfilled (10.4 percent) and approximately one in 25 respondents (3.7 percent) said the post-election developments were a positive surprise. In contrast, for almost one in three respondents in the survey (31 percent) their negative expectations were precisely fulfilled after the elections and for 49.1 percent of respondents development in Slovakia was disappointing.
Respondents also responded to the question: „Which of these problems are most significant for you personally?” and had the opportunity of three responses so the resulting percentage does not add up to one hundred. Respondents identified as the most serious current problem unemployment and too few jobs, which was the answer chosen by 42.9 percent of respondents. Deepening social inequality whereby the rich are becoming richer and the poor even poorer was identified as the most serious problem by 40.4 percent of respondents. High living costs are a problem for 38.6 percent and criminality for 33.4 percent the surveyed people. Health care quality is viewed as the greatest problem by 30.3 percent of respondents.
High taxes and levies are seen as a problem by 20.8 percent of respondents, bribery and cronyism by 18.9 percent, pensions and care for the elderly are seen as the most serious problem by 15.4 percent of respondents. Large economic and social disparities between regions of Slovakia is viewed as a problem by 13.1 percent, the state judiciary and law enforcement for 12.1 percent, socially inadaptable citizens for 10.8 percent, level of education for 8.9 percent, drug addiction for 8.4 percent, and unequal status and discrimination against women for 2.8 percent of respondents.
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