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The Communist Party of Slovakia (Slovak: Komunistická strana Slovenska, KSS) is a communist party in Slovakia, formed in 1992 through the merger of the Communist Party of Slovakia – 91 and the Communist League of Slovakia. The party is observer of the Party of the European Left although it criticizes the Political Theses for the 1st Congress ...
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 ]
The coalition of Progressive Slovakia and Together failed to meet the 7% threshold for two-party coalitions to enter the parliament by only 926 votes, surprising analysts, as they had been several percentage points above the threshold required in opinion polls as recently as a few days before the election, and polled above the threshold in exit ...
Andrej Danko, Deputy Speaker of the National Council and leader of the Slovak National Party, withdrew candidacy [29]; Rudolf Huliak [], MP, Mayor of Očová [30]; Miroslav Jureňa, former Minister of Agriculture and head of Harabin's election campaign [31]
ZKS emerged from the Communist Refoundation Platform of KSS (Platforma komunistickej obnovy KSS, PKO), a faction formed inside the Communist Party of Slovakia (KSS) in 1990. [3] In March 1991 PKO formed ZKS as a new party. [3] ZKS was registered with the Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic in Bratislava on March 19, 1991. [4] [1] [2]
Together – Civic Democracy was a centre-right conservative liberal and liberal conservative party. [6] [7] [8] Spolu was placed as centrist [9] or centre-right on the political spectrum. [5] The former chairman of the party Eduard Heger presented the party as centrist, pro-European, pro-NATO and green. [3] [4]
Fico's leftist, populist SMER-SSD (Direction-Slovak Social Democracy) struck a deal last week with the centre-left HLAS (Voice) and nationalist Slovak National Party (SNS) to join together ...
Parliamentary elections were held in Slovakia on 10 March 2012 to elect the 150 members of the National Council.The elections followed the fall of Prime Minister Iveta Radičová's Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party-led coalition in October 2011 over a no confidence vote her government had lost because of its support for the European Financial Stability Fund.