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Election Results Made Official, Opposition to Have Slim Majority
Sunday 13 June 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, June 13 (TASR) - The Central Electoral Commission (UVK) on Sunday confirmed its preliminary results of Saturday's general election in Slovakia and made the results official.
Prime Minister Robert Fico's Smer-SD party won the vote on 34.79-percent support, well ahead of leading Opposition SDKU-DS party receiving 15.42 percent of votes and the fledgling Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) party on 12.14 percent of votes.
Next came Christian Democrats (KDH) on 8.52 percent and Most-Hid party on 8.12 percent. The last party to break through the 5-percent threshold required to win representation in Parliament was the Slovak National Party (SNS), garnering 5.07 percent of the vote.
By contrast, two currently parliamentary parties - ethnic-Hungarian SMK party and LS-HZDS party - received 4.33 and 4.32 percent of votes, respectively. The two parties thus won't have any legislators in Parliament in the upcoming term.
In terms of the distribution of seats in the 150-strong Parliament, Smer-SD will be represented by 62 legislators, while SDKU will occupy 28 seats. SaS will have 22 MPs, followed by KDH with 15 representatives. Most-Hid and SNS will have 14 and 9 legislators, respectively.
The turnout stood at 58.83 percent.
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