If the parliamentary election in Slovakia had been held in late September, eight parties would have ended up in Parliament. Non-parliamentary Voice-SD would have won with 20.3% of votes, with the largest opposition Smer-SD party ending up second (15.3%) and non-parliamentary Progressive Slovakia third (9.6%), according to a poll conducted by the Focus agency. Opposition Freedom and Solidarity party would have ranked fourth (8.2%), followed by the far-right Republic (7.8%), largest governing Ordinary People (7.2%), We Are junior governing Family (7%) and non-parliamentary Christian Democrats (6.2%).
Failing to surpass the 5-percent threshold necessary to make it into Parliament would have been the ethnic-Hungarian Alliance (4.6%), Slovak National Party (3.9%) and the far right People’s Party Our Slovakia (2.9%).
In terms of parliamentary seats, Voice-SD would have garnered 38 mandates, Smer-SD 28, Progressive Slovakia 18, Freedom and Solidarity 15, Republic 14, Ordinary People and We Are Family 13 each and Christian Democrats 11.
The poll was carried out in September 21-27 on a sample of 1,009 respondents.
Source: TASR
