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MVK Poll: SNS Drops Below Threshold Needed to Get Into Parliament
Tuesday 09 March 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, March 9 (TASR) - If parliamentary elections had been held in early March, the Slovak National Party (SNS) would not have got into Parliament, according to a poll conducted by the MVK agency in late February and released on Tuesday.
According to the survey, SNS received only 4.9 percent, which falls just short of the 5-percent threshold needed to get into Parliament.
Meanwhile, the extra-parliamentary Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) party again performed well, coming fourth with 9.2 percent of the vote.
The survey shows that the elections would have been won by the main governing-coalition Smer-SD party on 37.1 percent, with leading opposition party SDKU-DS in second place on 12.8 percent, closely followed by the Christian Democrats (KDH) on 12.7 percent.
Along with SaS, other parties that would have made it into Parliament were LS-HZDS on 6.6 percent, the ethnic-Hungarian SMK on 6 percent, and Most-Hid on 5.2 percent, said Pavel Haulik of MVK.
This means that Smer would have gained 62 parliamentary seats. Other seat allocations would have been: SDKU - 22, KDH - 21, SaS - 15, HZDS - 11, SMK - 10, and Most-Hid - 9.
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