Far-Right Slovak Party Jumps to Second Place in Opinion Poll
Marian Kotleba
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Slovakia’s far-right People’s Party jumped to the runner-up spot in an opinion poll as next month’s presidential election has put a spotlight on its leader, who has praised the country’s World War II Fascist leadership.
The People’s Party would win 11.7 percent of the vote if general elections were held this month, according to the Feb. 21-26 poll from the Focus agency published on Thursday. It was second after Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini’s Smer party, which had 21.2 percent. Support for the People’s Party rose by more than 3 percentage points from January, when it ranked fifth.