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Survey: Two-thirds of Slovak Citizens Don't Support Patriot Act
Monday 26 April 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, April 26 (TASR) - Two out of three Slovak citizens view the broadly-discussed Patriot Act, which was approved by Parliament in March but was later vetoed by President Ivan Gasparovic, as a useless piece of legislation.
This is according to an omnibus survey carried out by the TNS SK agency in March on a sample of 830 adult respondents.
A negative attitude was expressed by 63.4 percent of those asked. Conversely, around one-third (36.7 percent) of the respondents said that the Patriot Act would be useful.
People aged up to 49 were most likely to be against the Act, along with ethnic Hungarians and people who live in smaller towns (with populations below 20,000). Conversely, people living in Zilina and Banska Bystrica regions were more likely to support the existence of such a law.
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