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Median Sk. Poll: Smer Would Have Won Recent Election on 43.9 Percent
Friday 26 March 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, March 26 (TASR) - If a general election had been held in February, the winner would have been the main coalition party Smer-SD on 43.9 percent of the vote, according to a poll carried out by Median SK from throughout the month of February on 1,206 respondents of voting age.
Main opposition party SDKU-DS would have come second on 12.7 percent, with the Christian Democrats (KDH) third on 11.1 percent.
Next came the Slovak National Party (SNS) on 7.9 percent, LS-HZDS on 6.3 percent and ethnic-Hungarian SMK on 6.2 percent.
No other party would have reached the 5-percent threshold required to gain seats in Parliament. The Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) would have come closest on 4.8 percent, followed by the Slovak-Hungarian Most-Hid on 1.6 percent.
Only 25.7 percent of the respondents said that they would definitely take part in the vote, 31.3 percent will think about it, while 30.9 percent stated that they definitely and 3.8 percent probably would not participate. A total of 3.6 percent said they didn't know if they would vote.
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