Slovaks do not want a one-party government

More than half of Slovaks would prefer a coalition government as opposed to "one-party rule", according to a survey performed in early September by the polling agency Polis. A coalition would be the preferred choice of 52.5% of respondents, with 24.8% preferring a one-party government. An ideal coalition would be one with a maximum of three parties, according to 42.7% of respondents.

The survey conductors also asked people which political party they deem as the most conflictual. Prime Minister Robert Fico's Smer-SD party came in as the winner for 21.5% of respondents, followed by the opposition's Olano (16.5%) and the liberals from the Freedom and Solidarity party (10.3%). Paradoxically the Smer party was also the winner of the category "least conflictual party" with 20.8% of respondents saying so. It was followed by Most-Hid (15.5%), and the Christian Democratic Movement (9.1%). More than a third of those surveyed did not know what to respond to these questions.