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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Governing coalition shaky as Slovaks vote AFP - 17 minutes ago Send IM Story Print BRATISLAVA (AFP) - – Slovaks voted Saturday in a general election with the ruling leftist coalition struggling to stay in power amid growing public debt and scandals battering the prime minister and his party. Turnout was high despite sweltering temperatures exceeding 30 degrees Celsius (86 F), the central electoral committee said, without providing concrete figures. In Bratislava's borough of Karlova Ves, extra voting booths were set up in the polling stations to accommodate the high numbers of voters, the SME daily reported. Prime Minister Robert Fico's Smer-Social Democracy was tipped by opinion polls to place first with 30-percent voter support, according to the Focus agency. But despite its pole position, Smer's future in government was uncertain as its current coalition partners may fail to garner the five percent of votes needed to win parliamentary seats. Opposition parties are reluctant to team up with Smer. With the Greek debt crisis fresh in mind, Slovaks were voting on the future of generous social benefits and extra pensions introduced by Fico's government in the country of 5.4 million people where joblessness reached 12.25 percent in May. Once boasting record economic growth -- 10.4 percent in 2007 and 6.4 percent in 2008 -- Slovakia's economy faced its first contraction of 4.7 percent in 2009 while the budget deficit reached 6.77 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). Public debt, which stood at 28 percent of GDP before Slovakia's eurozone entry in 2009, is projected to rise to 41 percent next year -- still well below the eurozone's 60-percent ceiling. "We support the welfare policy of the government," pensioners Anna and Stefan told AFP after casting ballots for the Smer party. But shortly before the vote, Smer's popularity took a blow from allegations of illegal fundraising for the party and by Fico's controversial gift of 17,000 euros from emergency funds for a blonde bombshell fitness model. After he cast his ballot in Bratislava, Slovak President Ivan Gasparovic said he was disappointed by a "disgusting election campaign full of attacks, lies and degradation of voters." "We expect the elections will bring a change so we voted for a right-wing party," 67-year-old Edita and her 71-year-old husband Eduard said. Opposition parties hope they will be able to put together a parliamentary majority built on a pledge to get the economy battered by the global downturn back on track. "We have a great chance to turn Slovakia into Europe's tiger again," leader of the liberal SDKU-DS party, Iveta Radicova, told journalists after casting her ballot. The SDKU-DS, the biggest opposition party with 12-percent support in polls, has promised to consolidate public finances without raising taxes or cutting social benefits. Smer, in contrast, wants to maintain social benefits and boost pensions despite the global financial crisis, which has hit the country's small economy hard. "Slovak people didn't cause the crisis and therefore they can't bear its impact," Fico said. Analysts said up to eight parties have a realistic chance of crossing the five percent threshold to get into parliament. Fico's coalition partners -- the People's Party-Movement for Democratic Slovakia (LS-HZDS) and the far-right Slovak National Party (SNS) -- had support close to five percent in the latest polls. Even if Smer finishes in first place, the liberal SDKU-DS and Freedom and Solidarity (SaS), the Christian Democrat KDH and two ethnic Hungarian parties SMK and Most-Hid could put together a parliamentary majority. Polling stations opened at 7:00 am (0500 GMT) for the more than four million eligible voters to choose 150 representatives to a single-chamber parliament among some 2,400 candidates from 18 parties. Exit polls are to be published shortly after polling stations close at 10:00 pm (2000 GMT) and official results are expected later in the night. 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