Opinion polls increasingly show that Prime Minister Robert Fico’s ruling Smer-SD has lost its lead as Slovakia’s most popular party, according to Euractiv.
An Ipsos poll commissioned by Slovak media showed the opposition movement Progressive Slovakia leading with 22.6% of voters’ support, whereas the Smer-SD was backed by 21.9%. The other ruling party, the Hlas-SD, came third with 12.8%. The Republika party (7.7%), the opposition parties KDH (6.9%) and SaS (6.2%) would also enter parliament.
PS leader Michal Šimečka expressed gratitude for the results and stated that “the number of disillusioned government voters is growing.”
We are talking to them, visiting them all over the country, delivering newspapers, and pointing out the lies and failures of Smer. Thanks to this, trust in us is rising, and Fico is falling lower and lower.
Fico did not comment directly on the poll results, but while congratulating Donald Trump on his victory in the US presidential election, he warned that polls could not be trusted.
I communicate this message to the citizens of Slovakia because the media always tend to lie, to create a different picture from the real one. And 90% of polls are conducted specifically on request, to show what is not true.
Smaller polls, such as NMS and SCIO, have been showing Progressive Slovakia (PS) in the lead for months. However, Ipsos reports for the first time since the parliamentary elections in September 2023 that PS has overtaken Smer.
President Peter Pellegrini remains Slovakia’s most trusted politician with a 51% rating. He is followed by PS leader Michal Šimečka (40%) and KDH opposition leader Milan Majerský (38 %), according to AKO.
