President Lajčák? Foreign Affairs Minister a presidential favourite

Had a presidential election taken place in September, people would have given the highest number of votes to incumbent Foreign and European Affairs Minister Miroslav Lajčák, TASR learnt from a poll conducted by the Focus agency on a sample of 1,015 respondents between September 18-25. Lajčák would have been supported by 26 percent of the respondents, followed by Parliamentary Chair Andrej Danko (12.3 percent) and scientist Robert Mistrík (9.5 percent). The respondents in the poll were free to choose from a list of possible presidential candidates, while neither Lajcak nor Danko have announced their intention to run for head of state in the 2019 presidential election. Next would have come Supreme Court judge Stefan Harabin on 9.1 percent, followed by far-right People's Party Our Slovakia (LSNS) chairman Marian Kotleba on 8.7 percent. The presidential election is due to take place in the spring of next year, though the final list of presidential candidates remains unknown.