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Political Analyst: "Clean Hands" Agenda May Not Attract Voters So Much
Monday 25 January 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, January 25 (TASR) - At the moment, only two or three political parties in Slovakia can count on making it to Parliament in this year's general election, political analyst Michal Horsky told TASR on Monday.
He was reflecting on the latest MVK agency survey suggesting that non-parliamentary Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) would enter the Parliament on 9.2 percent – a surprising result compared to other polls placing SaS at around 5 percent.
According to Horsky, the parliamentary future of five or six other parties seems quite unclear. "For now it's hard to forecast if SaS is able to make it (to Parliament) even though the nine percent is there at the moment," the analyst said.
Despite its lofty "clean hands" agenda which leader Richard Sulik (former advisor to both Ivan Miklos of the former government and, briefly, to incumbent finance minister Jan Pociatek) has built SaS upon, the party might ultimately fail to make it to the Parliament, Horsky says. "The same agenda was established by Free Forum (which made it past the 3-percent threshold to enjoy official party status but below the 5 percent needed to enter Parliament in 2006) in the past," said Horsky. The clean hands platform may sound attractive for right-wing voters, but also for those who support the strongest leftist party Smer-SD, he adds.
Sulik told TASR he'd rather not overestimate his party's result in the latest MVK survey. "Our aim is to make it to the Parliament, and any result above (5 percent - ed. note) - that I would call success," he noted in downplaying the significance of one poll.
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