If a general election had been held in May, it would have been won by the opposition Progressive Slovakia (PS) party with 19.7 percent of the votes, followed by Smer-SD (18.9 percent) and the far-right Republic party (9.1 percent), according to a recent poll carried out by AKO agency on behalf of Joj 24 television channel.
In fourth place would have come the junior coalition member Hlas-SD party (8.9 percent), followed by SaS - 8.6 percent, the 'Slovakia' party (8.2 percent), the KDH - 7.9 percent and the extra-parliamentary Democrats (5.8 percent).
The parties failing to make it past the 5-percent election threshold required to win seats in parliament include the coalition member Slovak National Party SNS - 4.8 percent, the Hungarian Alliance (4 percent), Sme rodina (2.2 percent), Právo na Pravdu 2.1 percent.
Based on the polls, PS would have garnered 34 seats in Parliament, followed by Smer-SD - 33, Republic and Hlas-SD - 16 each, SaS - 15, 'Slovakia' party and KDH - 14 each, and Democrats - 8.
The poll was carried out on a sample of 1,000 respondents between 14-21 May.
Source: TASR
