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This article lists political parties in Slovakia. Slovakia has a democratic multi-party system with numerous political parties, established after the fall of communism in 1989 and shaped into the present form with Slovakia's independence in 1993. Since 1989 there has been altogether 236 registered political parties in the country, 61 are active as of March 2012.[1]

In the Slovak political system usually no one party has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments, an exception being the parliamentary elections in 2012.

Active political parties

Parties with representation in the National Council

List Parties Leader Ideology Previous election Current seats Status
Votes (%) Seats
OĽaNO
List
 Igor Matovič Conservatism
25.02%
53 / 150
48 / 150
 Government
SMER–SSD
List
 Robert Fico Left-wing nationalism
18.29%
38 / 150
27 / 150
 Opposition
SR
List
 Boris Kollár Right-wing populism
8.24%
17 / 150
17 / 150
 Government
ĽSNS
List
 Marian Kotleba Neo-Nazism
7.97%
17 / 150
7 / 150
 [a] Opposition
SaS
List
 Richard Sulík Classical liberalism
6.22%
13 / 150
19 / 150
 Opposition
ZĽ
List
 Veronika Remišová Liberal conservatism
5.77%
12 / 150
4 / 150
 [b] Government
HLAS–SD
List
 Peter Pellegrini Social democracy N/A[c] N/A[d]
11 / 150
 [e] Opposition
PS
List
 Michal Šimečka Liberalism
6.96%
0 / 150
1 / 150
 [f] Opposition

Parliamentary parties serving as non-affiliated

Extra-parliamentary parties

Name Founded Leader Misc.
7 Brave is the way 2013 Stanislav Béreš
99 Percent – Civic Voice 2011 Ivan Weiss Affiliated with the NGO OZ Občan v akci
Christian Union 1998 Anna Záborská Until 2019 it was named Independent Forum.
Civic Conservative Party 2001 Ondrej Dostál
Communist Party of Slovakia 1991 Jozef Hrdlička The party has not been represented in parliament since 2006
Dawn 2005 Luciana Hoptová The party split from the Communist Party of Slovakia
Democrats of Slovakia 2005 Ľudovít Kaník Until 2015 was named Prosperity of Slovakia.
Democratic Party 2006 Stanislav Rajnoha
Good Choice 2019 Tomáš Drucker
Hungarian Forum 2019 Zsolt Simon
Home national party 2005 Pavol Slota
Labor Party 1991 Anton Čapkovič The party is active only in Košice and surrounding areas.
Mayors and Independent Candidates 2009 František Gőgh From 2011 to 2014 it was named Party +1 Vote
Movement Republic 2002 Milan Uhrík From 2002 to 2018 it was named Movement for democracy. From 2018 to 2021 it was named Voice of the people.
Nation and Justice – Our Party 2011 Anna Belousovová The party split from Slovak National Party (SNS), until 2011 it was named Nation and Justice.
National Coalition / Independent Candidates 2010 Rudolf Huliak From 2010 to 2013 the party was named Paliho Kapurková, Cheerful Political Party
Party of Modern Slovakia 2008 Milan Urbáni The party split from the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia
Party of the Roma Coalition 2009 Gejza Adam
Party of the Roma Union in Slovakia 2010 František Tanko
People's Party Fortress Slovakia 1995 Martin Beluský Until 2017 it was named People's Party.
Pirate Party Slovakia 2010 Michal Pírek Until 2015 it was named Our Region.
Slovak Democratic Alliance 2010 Roman Stopka
Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party 2000 Milan Roman
Slovak National Party 1989 Andrej Danko
Srdce - Slovak National Unity - the party of patriots 1991 Vladimír Zeman Until 2014 the party was named Slovak National Unity
Slovak Revival Movement 2019 Štefan Polačik, Róbert Švec
Slovak People's Party Andrej Hlinka 1990 Jozef Sásik From 1994 to 1995 the party was named SĽS - Slovak People's Bloc
Socialists.sk 2019 Artur Bekmatov
Solidarity – Movement of the working poor 2015 Stanislav Mičev
Union of the Slovak Self-Employed 2004 Vladimír Krivjaník
United Slovak National Party 2003 Peter Lisý Until 2004 the party was named Unitary Slovak National Party
Change from the Bottom, Democratic Union of Slovakia 2000 Ján Budaj

Inactive and cancelled political parties

Parties in liquidation

There are dozens of political parties currently in the process of being liquidated.

Defunct parties (1989 – present)

Political parties in Slovakia (1948–1989)

Political parties in Slovakia (1945–1948)

See also

Notes

  1. ^ In April 2022, ĽSNS' parliamentary group ceased to exist and its MPs serve as non-affiliated.
  2. ^ In September 2021, ZĽ's parliamentary group ceased to exist and its MPs serve as non-affiliated.
  3. ^ The party was created after the last election from members that split off from Direction – Slovak Social Democracy (SMER–SD).
  4. ^ The party was created after the last election from members that split off from Direction – Slovak Social Democracy (SMER–SD).
  5. ^ The party was created after the last election from members that split off from Direction – Slovak Social Democracy (SMER–SD).
  6. ^ It’s one National Council member is someone who was elected for the For the People party (ZĽ) and left to join this party.

References

  1. ^ "Register of Parties". Archived from the original on 12 July 2012.
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