(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - The governing Direction-Social Democracy (Smer) remains the most popular political organization in Slovakia, according to a poll by MVK. 39.7 per cent of respondents would vote for Smer in the next parliamentary election.

The Slovak Democratic and Christian Union (SDKU) is second with 15.5 per cent, followed by the Party of the Hungarian Coalition (SMK) with 10.7 per cent, the Slovak National Party (SNS) with 10.5 per cent, the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS) with 7.8 per cent, and the Christian Democratic Movement (KDH) with 6.9 per cent.

Parties require at least six per cent of the vote to earn seats under the country's proportional representation system. The Slovak Communist Party (KSS) and the Green Party (SZ) fall below this threshold.

Slovak voters renewed their legislative branch in June 2006. Final results placed Smer—led by Robert Fico—as the top party in the European country with 50 seats. In July, Fico officially took over as prime minister, in a coalition encompassing Smer, the SNS and the HZDS.

In late July, interior ministers from 14 European Union (EU) countries agreed that it will be possible to lift border controls by the end of August. New members of the EU—such as Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland—are preparing to implement the Schengen Information System (SIS), which allows them to remove systematic border controls at the end of 2007 and beginning of 2008. Slovak interior minister Robert Kalinak discussed the situation, saying, "As the timetable within the implementation of SIS is still valid, there is no reason to postpone the deadline for the entry of individual countries in Schengen."

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