Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2016 19:24:25 GMT
Will be held March 4.
The Left Populist/"Social Democratic" Smer is in power and will be difficult to topple - they are hardliners on the refugee crisis (probably as restrictive as any left wing party in Europe gets).
The National Council has 150 members and will be elected using proportional representation in a single nationwide constituency using an open list system with max. 4 preferential votes.
There is a threshold of 5%.
Has a large Hungarian minority, mainly in the South. The north is more religious/the south more secular due to factors dating back to the counterreformation. The east is generally more traditional (but not necessarily backwards).
Last poll from late January:
Centre-left:
Smer 36.3 (one of their worst polls)
Christian Democrats:
SIEŤ/Network 13.0 (centrist SoCons - breakaway from KDH)
KDH/Christian Democratic Movement 7.1 (Conservative SoCons)
SDKÚ-DS/Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party 1.7 (Liberal Christian Democrats)
Hungarian secular centre-right:
Most–Híd/Bridge 7.7 (centre-right interethnic (though mainly Hungarian), the name means bridge in Slovak and Hungarian respectively)
MKP/Hungarian Community 3.8 (centre right ethnic minority party - sometimes SMK after the Slovak version)
Slovak secular centre-right:
OĽaNO-NOVA/Ordinary People-New Allliance) 6.4 (alliance of two Conservative populist parties)
SaS/Freedom and Solidarity 5.5 (Libertarians, Eurosceptic)
Hard right:
SNS/Slovak National party 7.3 (right wing populist, Eurosceptic and National Conservative)
Others 11.2
Notes:
After having absorbed several smaller parties a decade ago Smer is the only left wing party of any significance. It ruled 2006-10 with SNS and a now defunct populist party and since 2012 alone. Its leader Robert Fico has been the dominant figure in Slovak politics since before the party was founded in 1999.
SDKÚ-DS is a formerly dominant Liberal europhile party, which now only has one seat in parliament and looks moribund. It formed the 2010-12 government with KDH, SaS and Most-Hid.
SIEŤ# is a new party founded by Radoslav Procházka, ex-KDH and third place finisher in the 2014 presidential election with 21%. It is a reform minded economically liberal party or an empty vehicle for young careerists, depending on who you ask.
OĽaNO-NOVA is an anti-corruption/judicial reform alliance between ex-SaS populist conservatives and ex-KDH eurosceptic conservatives and are anti-EU and Conservative populist (but not "right wing populist").
The Left Populist/"Social Democratic" Smer is in power and will be difficult to topple - they are hardliners on the refugee crisis (probably as restrictive as any left wing party in Europe gets).
The National Council has 150 members and will be elected using proportional representation in a single nationwide constituency using an open list system with max. 4 preferential votes.
There is a threshold of 5%.
Has a large Hungarian minority, mainly in the South. The north is more religious/the south more secular due to factors dating back to the counterreformation. The east is generally more traditional (but not necessarily backwards).
Last poll from late January:
Centre-left:
Smer 36.3 (one of their worst polls)
Christian Democrats:
SIEŤ/Network 13.0 (centrist SoCons - breakaway from KDH)
KDH/Christian Democratic Movement 7.1 (Conservative SoCons)
SDKÚ-DS/Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party 1.7 (Liberal Christian Democrats)
Hungarian secular centre-right:
Most–Híd/Bridge 7.7 (centre-right interethnic (though mainly Hungarian), the name means bridge in Slovak and Hungarian respectively)
MKP/Hungarian Community 3.8 (centre right ethnic minority party - sometimes SMK after the Slovak version)
Slovak secular centre-right:
OĽaNO-NOVA/Ordinary People-New Allliance) 6.4 (alliance of two Conservative populist parties)
SaS/Freedom and Solidarity 5.5 (Libertarians, Eurosceptic)
Hard right:
SNS/Slovak National party 7.3 (right wing populist, Eurosceptic and National Conservative)
Others 11.2
Notes:
After having absorbed several smaller parties a decade ago Smer is the only left wing party of any significance. It ruled 2006-10 with SNS and a now defunct populist party and since 2012 alone. Its leader Robert Fico has been the dominant figure in Slovak politics since before the party was founded in 1999.
SDKÚ-DS is a formerly dominant Liberal europhile party, which now only has one seat in parliament and looks moribund. It formed the 2010-12 government with KDH, SaS and Most-Hid.
SIEŤ# is a new party founded by Radoslav Procházka, ex-KDH and third place finisher in the 2014 presidential election with 21%. It is a reform minded economically liberal party or an empty vehicle for young careerists, depending on who you ask.
OĽaNO-NOVA is an anti-corruption/judicial reform alliance between ex-SaS populist conservatives and ex-KDH eurosceptic conservatives and are anti-EU and Conservative populist (but not "right wing populist").
Hopefully the exit poll is not 100% accurate. 