Poll: PS Would Have Won Election, with Smer-SD Runner-up in September

Bratislava, 19 September (TASR) - If general elections had been held in September, Progressive Slovakia (PS) would have won with 22 percent of the vote, followed by the Smer-SD party, supported by 18.2 percent of voters, according to a Focus agency poll conducted for the 360tka news portal. A total of eight parties would have entered Parliament. The third largest support would have gone to the Voice-SD party with 9.7 percent of the vote. Also making it to Parliament would have been the far-right Republic party (9.7 percent), 'Slovakia' party (8.5 percent), the Christian Democratic Movement (KDH, 6.1 percent), Freedom and Solidarity (SaS, 6.1 percent) and the Democrats (5.1 percent). Among the parties that would have stayed outside Parliament are the Hungarian Alliance and the currently governing Slovak National Party (4.3 percent each). Based on the poll results, PS would have gained 39 seats in parliament, Smer-SD 32, and Voice-SD 17. Republic would have garnered 17 seats, Slovakia 15, KDH 11, SaS 10 and the Democrats nine seats. The survey was conducted on a sample of 1,086 respondents between September 10 and 17. ko