Poll: Progressive Slovakia Top in February, Followed by Smer-SD and 'Slovakia'

Bratislava, 27 February (TASR) - If a general election had been held in February, it would have been won by the opposition Progressive Slovakia (PS) party on 20.6 percent of the votes, followed by the senior governing Smer-SD (16.4 percent) and opposition 'Slovakia' (9.3 percent) parties, 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 Voice-SD party (8.8 percent), followed by the extra-parliamentary Republic (8.7 percent), Freedom and Solidarity (SaS - 7.9 percent), the Christian Democrats (KDH - 7.4 percent), and Democrats (6.2 percent). The parties failing to make it past the 5-percent election threshold would have included the junior governing Slovak National Party (SNS - 4.8 percent), Hungarian Alliance (4.6 percent), 'We Are Family' (2.9 percent), 'Right to Truth' (2.2 percent) and the Communist Party of Slovakia (KSS - 0.2 percent). Based on the polls, PS would have garnered 36 seats in Parliament, followed by Smer-SD - 29, 'Slovakia' and Voice-SD - 16 each, Republic - 15, SaS - 14, KDH - 13, and Democrats - 11. The poll was carried out on a sample of 1,000 respondents between February 10-19. am/df