MVK Poll: Smer leading HZDS by 31.1 percent to 13.4 percent

The latest monthly opinion poll shows that if a general election had been held in late January, the main opposition Smer party would have won with 31.1 percent support. The HZDS would have come second with 13.4 percent, ahead of the governing-Coalition ethnic-Hungarian SMK party on 10.6 percent. The survey was conducted before the Christian Democrats announced that they were leaving the governing Coalition. According to the poll, Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda's SDKU party would have received 9.3 percent support, the nationalist SNS 8.3 percent, KDH 7.8 percent, Free Forum (SF) 7.4 percent, and the Communist party (KSS) 6.7 percent. No other parties exceeded the five-percent-support threshold needed to receive seats in parliament.