Poll: Lajcak Tops Presidential Favourites Poll by Margin
Bratislava, October 2 (TASR) – Had a presidential election taken place in September, people would given the highest number of votes to incumbent Foreign and European Affairs Minister Miroslav Lajcak, TASR learnt from a poll conducted by Focus agency on a sample of 1,015 respondents between September 18-25.
Lajcak would have been supported by 26 percent of the respondents, followed by Parliamentary Chair Andrej Danko (12.3 percent) and scientist Robert Mistrik (9.5 percent).
The respondents in the poll were free to choose from a list of possible presidential candidates, while neither Lajcak nor Danko have announced their intention to run for head of state in the 2019 presidential election.
Next would have come Supreme Court judge Stefan Harabin on 9.1 percent, followed by far-right People’s Party Our Slovakia (LSNS) chairman Marian Kotleba on 8.7 percent, coalition Most-Hid party leader Bela Bugar and head of the OLaNO caucus Veronika Remisova, both on 7.9 percent.
Lawyer and activist Zuzana Caputova would have been backed by 5.2 percent of the respondents, Frantisek Miklosko by 4.9 percent and Eduard Chmelar by 4.1 percent. The rest of the candidates in the poll would have gained less than 3 percent of the votes.
As many as 29.7 percent of the respondents wouldn’t have known whom to vote for, while 9 percent wouldn’t have gone to the polls at all.
The presidential election is due to take place in the spring of next year. Several people from the poll have officially announced their bids and are collecting the signatures needed. However, the final list of the presidential candidates isn’t known yet.
