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Median Sk. Poll: Smer Would Have Won Election on 41.5 percent
Tuesday 01 December 2009 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, December 1 (TASR) - If a general election had been held around October, the winner would have been the main coalition party Smer-SD with 41.5 percent of the votes, according to a poll carried out by Median Sk.
The poll, which was carried out between September 28 and November 8 on a sample of 1,621 respondents, showed that the main opposition party SDKU-DS would have come second on 15.5 percent with the Christian Democrats (KDH) third on 11.1 percent.
Next came LS-HZDS on 8.8 percent, followed by the Slovak National Party (SNS) on 8.4 percent and the ethnic-Hungarian SMK on 5.4 percent.
No other party would have reached the 5-percent threshold required to gain seats in Parliament. The Slovak-Hungarian Most-Hid would have come closest on 4.1 percent, followed by the Communist Party (KSS) on 2 percent and the recently-formed Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) on 1.6 percent.
As many as 58.3 percent of the respondents said that they would have taken part in the vote, while 36.6 stated that they wouldn't have done so and 5.1 were undecided.
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