Former Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini, now leader of the opposition Voice-SD party, is viewed as the most trusted politician in Slovakia. According to the survey, which was carried out for the private TV channel Markiza, he is enjoying the confidence of 44 percent of the respondents questioned by Focus agency as opposed to 53 percent who distrust him.
The survey showed the second most trusted politician is President Zuzana Caputova, who received the confidence of 42 percent and who is seen as untrustworthy by 57 percent. Caputova was followed by Vice-premier and Economy Minister Richard Sulik (SaS), who enjoys confidence from 30 percent and is distrusted by 68 percent, and opposition Smer-SD party chairman Robert Fico on 30 percent of those trusting him and on 68 of those distrusting him.
Premier Eduard Heger (OLaNO) came fifth (trusted by 27 percent, distrusted by 71 percent), followed by Parliamentary Chair Boris Kollar (We Are Family) trusted by 25 percent, distrusted by 72 percent) and founder of the Republic party and MEP Milan Uhrik (trusted by 24 percent, distrusted by 59 percent).
Also making it onto the list was head of the Christian Democrats (KDH) Milan Majersky (trusted by 22 percent, distrusted by 47 percent), extra-parliamentary Slovak National Party (SNS) leader Andrej Danko (trusted by 21 percent, distrusted by 74 percent), Progressive Slovakia leader Michal Simecka (trusted by 19 percent, distrusted by 48 percent), Vice-premier a Investments Minister Veronika Remisova (For the People; trusted by 17 percent, distrusted by 79 percent), LSNS Chairman Marian Kotleba (trusted by 11 percent, distrusted by 85 percent), and ex-premier and Finance Minister Igor Matovic (OLaNO; trusted also by 11 percent, distrusted by 88 percent).
Focus agency conducted the poll between May 25 and 31 on a sample of 1,008 respondents.
Source: TASR
