BRATISLAVA, November 15, (WEBNOVINY) — If parliamentary elections were held at the beginning of November, Slovakia’s strongest party, the opposition SMER-SD would end up a clear winner. With 45.2 percent of the vote securing 79 seats in the 150-strong parliament for the party, SMER-SD would be able to form a one-party government, show the results of a survey of the Focus agency that surveyed 1,041 adult respondents between November 3 and November 8. They were to reply to the following question: “Imagine that parliamentary elections were held this weekend and the following political parties would run. To which of them would you give your vote?” The strongest ruling coalition party SDKU-DS would place second with 11.3 percent giving it twenty deputy mandates. Another coalition party, KDH would come up third with 9.9 percent and corresponding 17 MP mandates.
The survey shows that there would be no newcomers to parliament following the race. The SaS placed on fourth spot with 7.5 percent of the vote entitling it to 13 deputy seats. MOST-HID that would win seven percent would have 12 seats in parliament. Also SNS would make it to parliament though being last, backed by 5.4 percent of the vote representing nine lawmakers.
Compared with the MVK survey in October, SMER-SD recorded the biggest improvement of 1.7 percent percentage points while the position of the KDH would improve 0.2 percentage points. The position of MOST-HID was 0.1 percentage points better from a month ago. In contrast the situation of SDKU-DS worsened 0.9 percentage points, followed by SaS losing 0.7 percentage points and the SNS that would lose one percentage point.
The results are calculated based on answers from 65.2 percent of respondents. Further 13.9 percent would not attend polling stations and 20.9 percent said they do not know for whom they would vote or did not want to reveal their political preferences.
SITA
