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Focus Poll: Smer Would Have Won November Election, But Support Down
Thursday 03 December 2009 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, December 3 (TASR) - Seven political parties would have made it into Parliament if elections had taken place at the beginning of November, according to survey carried out by the Focus agency.
The poll, which was carried out between November 4-11 on 1,045 respondents, showed that Premier Robert Fico's Smer-SD party would have won 35.9 percent of the vote, down from 37.4 percent in October. Second place would have gone to the opposition SDKU-DS, which saw its support drop from 14.4 in October to 12.4 percent. The Christian Democratic Movement (KDH) would have come third on 10.2 percent.
Next came the Slovak National Party (SNS) with a significant increase in its support from 5.8 percent in October to 9 percent, followed by LS-HZDS on 7 percent. Ethnic-Hungarian parties SMK and Most-Hid would also make it into the House, Most-Hid on 6.7 percent and SMK on 6.2 percent.
The recently-formed Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) - 3.6 percent, the Communist Party (KSS) - 3.1 percent and the Green Party and Free Forum (both on 1.6 percent) wouldn't have reached the 5-percent-threshold needed to get into Parliament.
Around 16.7 percent of the respondents said that they wouldn't have gone to the polls, while 14.3 percent weren't sure or didn't want to reveal their political preferences.
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