Poll: Smer wins in August

Had a general election taken place in Slovakia in late August, it would have been won by the current leading governing party Smer-SD, albeit with less than 20 percent of the vote (i.e. on 19.6 percent). The results of an AKO agency poll conducted for the daily Hospodarske Noviny and published on Thursday show that Smer would be followed by the Progressive Slovakia (PS)-Together coalition with 15.5 percent, and the far-right People's Party Our Slovakia (LSNS) coming in third with 10.9 percent. Fourth place in the August poll went to the opposition party Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) with 9 percent, followed by the new For the People party led by former president Andrej Kiska with 8.8 percent, the opposition party We Are Family with 7.6 percent, OLaNO with 7.3 percent and the coalition Slovak National Party (SNS) with 7.1 percent. The last party to make it into Parliament would be the Christian Democrats (KDH) with 6.3 percent. The coalition party Most-Hid (3.9 percent) and ethnic Hungarian party SMK (3.5 percent) would remain outside Parliament. Two parties that would have garnered less than one percent are the Communist Party of Slovakia (0.3 percent) and the Green Party of Slovakia (0.2 percent).