AKO Poll: Hlas-SD top, followed by Smer-SD and PS in January

Had a general election taken place in January, it would have been won by the extra-parliamentary Hlas-SD party with 17.6 percent of the votes, a poll carried out by AKO agency for TV Joj revealed on Thursday (January 19).
Hlas-SD would have been followed by the opposition Smer-SD party at 15.9 percent and the extra-parliamentary Progressive Slovakia (PS) party at 13.2 percent.
Other parties that would have made it into Parliament were: SaS - 9.1 percent, OLANO - 8.7 percent, the far-right Republic party - 7.3 percent, Sme Rodina - 6.8 percent, and KDH - 6.2 percent.
Two parties that currently hold seats in Parliament wouldn’t have reached the necessary 5-percent threshold this time, namely Za Ludi with 2.9 percent and the far-right LSNS at 1.9 percent. Also left outside Parliament would have been the former governing party SNS at 4.1 percent, the ethnic-Hungarian Alliance party at 2.1 percent, and Hungarian Forum at 1.9 percent.
When converted into seats in the 150-member House, the allocations would have been as follows: Hlas-SD - 31, Smer-SD - 28, PS - 24, SaS - 16, OLANO - 15, Republic - 13, Sme Rodina - 12, and KDH - 11.
The idea of a snap election being held in June was supported by 57.7 percent of the respondents, while 13.2 percent would prefer a September date and 21.5 percent said that a snap election shouldn't take place.
AKO agency carried out the survey on a sample of 1,000 respondents between January 10 and 16. (TASR)