If a parliamentary election had been held in September, opposition party Progressive Slovakia (PS) would have won 23.1 percent of votes. The biggest party in the current government, Smer-SD would have ended up second with 17.4 percent, and Hlas-SD third with 11 percent, according to polls conducted by the AKO agency on behalf of Joj24 TV.
The 'Slovakia' party would have been fourth with 8.7 percent, followed up by Republic (8.2 percent), SaS (7.4 percent) and KDH (7.2 percent).
Failing to make the 5-percent threshold would have been 'Democrats' (4.9 percent), SNS (4.6 percent), Sme rodina (3.5 percent) and Hungarian Alliance (2.9 percent). Other parties would have garnered less than 0.5 percent each.
Based on such results, PS would have commanded 42 seats in Parliament, Smer-SD 31, Hlas-SD 20, 'Slovakia' 16, Republic 15, with SaS and KDH earning 13 each.
The poll was carried out from September 8-22 on a sample of 1,000 respondents.
Source: TASR
