BRATISLAVA, April 18, (WEBNOVINY) — Political support to both opposition parliamentary parties, SMER-SD and the SNS moderately sank in March, shows the latest public opinion survey conducted by the Median SK agency. It surveyed 1,086 respondents aged 18-79 between February 28 and March 27.
The strongest political party in Slovakia, the opposition SMER-SD of Robert Fico would win parliamentary elections in March with 43.2 percent. In the February survey of Median SK, it would gain 44.3 percent. The popularity of the strongest ruling coalition party the SDKU-DS led by Mikulas Dzurinda increased a bit when 17.1 percent of those polled wanted to vote for it. In February 14.4 percent supported the party. The KDH ended up third in the March survey with 14.4 percent, followed by the coalition SaS with 9.9 percent. Both parties recorded a moderate increase in voter favor. The opposition SNS would garner 5.9 percent in March while it had support of 6.5 percent of those polled in February. The coalition MOST-HID sank to 5.1 percent in February, closely above the threshold for getting into parliament. In February it harvested 6.5 percent. The opposition LS-HZDS with 3.7 percent, the SDL with 1.9 percent and the SMK with 1.5 percent would not make it to parliament according to the results of the latest Median SK survey.
The survey showed that SMER-SD would get 71 deputy seats in March while the SDKU-DS would have 28 MPs, the KDH 17, SaS 16, SNS 10 and MOST-HID would have 8 representatives in parliament.
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