The incumbent Slovak government is likely to be unseated following general elections this Saturday as the electorate says enough is enough and it will no longer tolerate suspected graft and corruption.

"Responsibility [among politicians] is falling, wages are similar to 20 years ago, quality of life is declining," said Katerina Hanzelova, 55, a Slovak who in the 1980s went to university in France and later emigrated to West Germany--a move she said was meant to give her children a good education. Now back in Slovakia, she...