POLL: Smer-SD would win in late October

Had a general election taken place on October 26 and 27, Smer-SD would have come out on top, garnering 22 percent of the vote, according to a Focus poll carried out on behalf of private television channel Markiza, which broadcast the results on Sunday on its politics show 'Na telo' (Tough Questions). The Progressive Slovakia (PS)- Together coalition would have been placed second with 11 percent, with the far-right People's Party Our Slovakia (LSNS) coming in third with more than 10 percent. Next came former president Andrej Kiska's party For the People with 9 percent, followed by the We Are Family party with 7 percent. The Slovak National Party (SNS) and the Christian Democratic Movement (KDH) would have both obtained almost 7 percent of the vote. The final two parties that would have made it into Parliament were OLaNO with 6 percent and Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) with 5.2 percent. Seats in Parliament would have been distributed as follows: Smer-SD - 39 seats; PS-Together - 20 seats; LSNS - 18; For the People - 16 seats; We Are Family - 13 seats; SNS and KDH - both 12 seats; OLaNO - 11 seats; and SaS - 9 seats. The poll was carried out on a sample of 1,021 respondents.