STEM poll: ANO would win elections if they had been held in January

If parliamentary elections had taken place in January, Andrej Babiš's opposition ANO party would have won with 33.4 percent of the vote, according to the latest STEM agency poll, published on Sunday by CNN Prima News. Prime Minister Petr Fiala's Civic Democrats (ODS) would have come in second with 13.2 percent and the Pirate Party third with 11.3 percent. Tomio Okamura's opposition Freedom and Direct Democracy Party (SPD) would have been fourth with 10 percent of the vote.

Of the remaining three members of the governing coalition, the Mayors and Independents (STAN) and TOP 09 would also have made it into the Chamber of Deputies with seven and five percent of the vote respectively, five percent being the minimum required for representation in parliament. The only party from the governing coalition that would not have reached the five percent threshold would have been the Christian Democrats (KDU-ČSL), who would have finished even behind the Communist and Social Democrat (SOCDEM) parties.

Author: Anna Fodor