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MVK Poll: Prime Minister Radicova Most Trustworthy Politician
Saturday 11 December 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, December 11 (TASR) - Prime Minister Iveta Radicova has registered as the most trustworthy politician in Slovakia in an MVK agency poll released in early December, thus displacing former premier Robert Fico, who has consistently headed such polls over the past decade.
Radicova is seen as reliable by 34.5 percent in the survey, carried out on a representative sample of 1,120 respondents in mid-November. Strongest opposition Smer-SD leader and former premier Robert Fico ended up as the runner-up (on 30.6 percent) in the chart of trustworthiness, followed by President Ivan Gasparovic (15.4 percent), ethnic-reconciliation Most-Hid party leader Bela Bugar (15.2 percent), Finance Minister Ivan Miklos (14.3 percent), former interior minister Robert Kalinak (11 percent), current Interior Minister Daniel Lipsic (9.4 percent), Transport Minister Jan Figel (8.9 percent), former premier and currently Foreign Affairs Minister Mikulas Dzurinda (5.5 percent), Parliamentary Chairman Richard Sulik (4.7 percent), Jan Slota (4.1 percent) and former premier (now out of Parliament) Vladimir Meciar (3.4 percent).
Conversely, the table of the most untrustworthy politicians is topped by nationalist SNS leader Jan Slota, described by 41.3 percent of respondents as unreliable. Second place in this respect goes to Mikulas Dzurinda (28.4 percent), who is followed by Richard Sulik (25 percent), Robert Fico (24.9 percent), Vladimir Meciar (20.7 percent), Ivan Miklos (13.7 percent) and Iveta Radicova (12.3 percent).
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