Smer-SD would have won general election in April

Had a general election taken place in early April, it would have been won by the main governing party Smer-SD party with 19.7 percent of the vote, ahead of a potential coalition comprised of the two extra-parliamentary parties Progressive Slovakia and Together-Civic Democracy, with a combined 14.4 percent, and the opposition party Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) which would have garnered 12.9 percent of the vote. These are the results of an AKO agency poll on Tuesday. The poll was carried out on a sample of 1,000 respondents on 1 and 2 April. The far-right People's Party Our Slovakia (LSNS) would have finished fourth with 11.5 percent, with the opposition party We Are Family next with 10.7 percent. This would have been followed by the parties OLaNO, the Slovak National Party, the Christian Democratic Movement (KDH) and Most-Hid, each of which would have had less than 10 percent. No other party would have managed to clear the 5-percent threshold needed to win representation in Parliament.