The party led by Robert Fico can hope for victory in Slovakia

The strongest opposition party in the Bratislava parliament, Irány (Smer-SD), led by Robert Fico, would win the early parliamentary elections to be held in Slovakia in September.

The Focus pollster polled more than a thousand people in the last days of May, and according to the results, the left-wing Irány would win the elections with 18 percent of the votes.

The results of the Focus survey coincide with the results of most public opinion polls published in recent months, in which the party of the multiple former prime minister, Robert Fico, usually showed the highest support.

The Social Democratic Voice (Hlas-SD), the party of former Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini, who left Irany earlier, received the second largest support from Focus, with 17.4 percent of those participating in the public opinion survey voting for them. In the survey, the former party of President Zuzana Caputová, left out of the legislature in the last parliamentary election, the liberal Progressive Slovakia (PS) came in third place, with 12.5 percent support.

According to the results of the public opinion poll, a total of eight parties would enter the future Bratislava parliament.

In fourth place is the non-parliamentary, national radical Republic (Republika) with 9.7 percent, and in fifth place is the centre-right party of the current president of the legislature, Boris Kollár, We Are Family (Sme rodina) with 6.6 percent.

The Christian Democratic Movement (KDH), which has been out of parliament for several election cycles, would also cross the 5 percent threshold necessary to enter the parliament, achieving a result of 5.5 percent. The strongest party of the current legislature, the centrist Simple People and Independent Personalities (OLaNO) movement led by ex-prime minister Igor Matovic and renamed OLaNO and Friends (OLaNO a priatelia) would finish in seventh place with 5.3 percent.

According to the opinion poll, the liberals who were part of the government coalition until last September, then left, and played a leading role in the overthrow of the government in December, would still enter the parliament: the expected result for Richard Sulík's Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) was 5.3 percent.