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Survey: Smer-SD Would Win Election, With SaS Runner-Up
Thursday 10 June 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, June 10 (TASR) - If a parliamentary election had been held June 1-7, Smer-SD would have won on 29.5 percent of votes, followed by the Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) party on 12.4 percent and SDKU-DS on 12.1 percent, says the survey carried out by the Focus agency on a sample of 1,006 respondents.
According to the survey, 14.4 percent of respondents were not making plans to vote, with 12.5 percent undecided or refusing to share who they'll be voting for.
The remaining 73.1 percent divided their preferences as follows: Smer-SD would gain 29.5 percent, SaS 12.4 percent, SDKU-DS 12.1 percent, the Christian Democratic Movement (KDH) 9.2 percent, the Slovak National Party (SNS) 7.7 percent, Most-Hid 6.5 percent, ethnic-Hungarian SMK party 5.2 percent and LS-HZDS 5.0 percent.
Parties under the 5-percent threshold required to get into Parliament are the Slovak Democratic Left party (4.6 percent), Slovak Communist Party (2.3 percent), Union - Party for Slovakia (1.5 percent), Paliho Kapurkova - the Merry Political Party (1.2 percent), New Democracy (1 percent), People's Party - Our Slovakia (0.9 percent), the Slovak Worker's Association (0.5 percent), Alliance for the Europe of Nations/AZEN (0.3 percent), the European Democratic Party/EDS (0.1 percent) and the Party of the Roma Coalition/SRK (0.1 percent).
Translated into seats, there would be eight parties in Parliament. Smer-SD would get 51 seats, SDKU-DS 21, SaS 21, KDH 16, SNS 13, Most-Hid 11, SMK 9 and LS-HZDS 8.
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