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Smer-SD Improves Public Support, SaS Seen Entering Parliament
Thursday 17 December 2009 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, December 17 (TASR) - The latest opinion poll shows that Smer-SD remains Slovakia's most popular political party and would have been re-elected on 37.9 percent voter support – a 2-percent improvement over the survey done a month earlier.
The poll, featuring 1,080 respondents, was carried out by Focus agency from December 1-8 and released Thursday. It showed that 11.5 percent of those surveyed supported the second-place SDKU-DS, down from 12.4 percent in November, while the Christian Democrats edged higher to 11 percent (from 10.2 percent).
Jan Slota's Slovak National Party (SNS) was on 8.4 percent, down from 9 percent in November, while LS-HZDS voters kept their support for the party unaltered at 7 percent.
Other parties that would win seats in the legislature were the ethnic Hungarian SMK (5.6 percent), its splinter group the right-leaning Most-Hid (5.7 percent), and the new right-leaning Freedom and Solidarity (SaS, 5.3 percent).
No other parties cleared the 5-percent hurdle required to enter Parliament.
Of those polled, 18.9 percent said they would not vote, while 16.2 percent were undecided or would not say which party they planned to vote for.
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