BRATISLAVA, December 20, (WEBNOVINY) — If parliamentary elections were held this weekend, the Hungarian Coalition Party (SMK) with five percent would make it to parliament, too. This stems from the result of a representative public opinion poll of political preferences, which Focus agency carried out between November 30 and December 6 on a sample of 1,040 respondents older than 18 years. 16.5 percent of those polled said they would not participate in the elections if held this weekend, while 11.9 percent said they did not know or did not want to say.
The SMK would make it to parliament, based on the survey results, for the first time since the June parliamentary elections. Previous surveys left the party outside the parliament’s gates, garnering less than five percent. In November, 4.2 percent of those polled gave the party their votes, in October 4.6 percent, at the end of August and beginning of September the SMK gained 3.3 percent, and in July it won 3.4 percent.
If parliamentary elections were held this weekend, the opposition SMER-SD would win the elections with 40.4 percent. The ruling coalition members the SDKU-DS would be next with 15.3 percent, SaS would come third with 9.5 percent, KDH would be fourth with 8.7 percent and MOST-HID with seven percent would follow. The opposition SNS party would get 5.5 percent of the vote.
The LS-HZDS, and the Communist party KSS would not make it to parliament with 3.8 percent and 1.9 percent, respectively. The Green Party would get 1.3 percent and the SDL party 0.8 percent.
Based on the survey results, SMER-SD would occupy 67 seats in the 150-member parliament, SDKU-DS twenty-five, SaS sixteen, KDH fourteen and MOST-HID eleven. Nine deputies would represent the SNS party and eight the SMK party.
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