politics of slovakia
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The Government and Politics of Slovakia.TRANSCRIPT
Politics of SlovakiaMade by: Benedict S. Gombocz
Government (Vláda): Parliamentary republic and multi-party democracy
President (Prezident Slovensko): Ivan Gašparovič
Prime Minister (Predseda vlády Slovenskej republiky): Robert Fico
Government of Slovakia
Direction – Social Democracy (Smer - sociálna demokracia, Smer)
Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party (Slovenská demokratická a kresťanská únia - Demokratická strana, SDKÚ–DS)
Freedom and Solidarity (Sloboda a Solidarita, SaS)
Christian Democratic Movement (Kresťanskodemokratické hnutie, KDH)
Parliamentary parties
Most–Híd (literally Bridge, Most) Slovak National Party
(Slovenská národná strana, SNS)
Civic Conservative Party (Občianska konzervatívna strana, OKS)
Party of the Hungarian Coalition (Strana maďarskej koalície - Magyar Koalíció Pártja, SMK-MKP)
People’s Party – Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (Ľudová strana - Hnutie za demokratické Slovensko, LS-HZDS)
Parliamentary parties (cont.)
1998◦ PM before election: Vladimír Mečiar (HZDS) ◦ Elected PM: Mikuláš Dzurinda (KDH)
2002◦ PM before election: Mikuláš Dzurinda (SDKÚ)◦ Elected PM: Mikuláš Dzurinda (SDKÚ)
2006◦ PM before election: Mikuláš Dzurinda (SDKÚ)◦ Elected PM: Robert Fico (Smer-SD)
2010◦ PM before election: Robert Fico (Smer-SD)◦ Elected PM: Iveta Radičová (SDKÚ-DS)
2012◦ PM before election: Iveta Radičová (SDKÚ-DS)◦ Elected PM: Robert Fico (Smer-SD)
Years of Slovak parliamentary elections and the prime minister before election and elected prime minister
Centre-left, social democratic, left-wing nationalist and populist party
Founded in 1999 when it emerged as a breakaway from the Party of the Democratic Left
Led by Robert Fico, current PM of Slovakia, who was also PM from 2006 to 2010
Largest party in the National Council and has 62 seats
Entered a coalition with the Slovak National Party after its victory in 2006 parliamentary election and lost its membership in the Party of European Socialists
Direction – Social Democracy
Liberal conservative, Christian democratic party
Founded in 2000 Was called the Slovak
Democratic and Christian Union (SDKÚ) prior to its merger with the Democratic Party on 21 January 2006
Won 18.4% of the popular vote and 31 out of 150 total seats in the National Council in 2006 parliamentary election
Member of the European People’s Party
Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party
Centre-right classical liberal party
Founded on 28 February 2009 and is led by its founder and designer of Slovakia’s flat tax system, economist Richard Sulík
Has 21 seats in the National Council and four positions in the Slovak Government
Narrowly failed to cross the 5% threshold in 2009 European Parliament election, but came in third and won 22 seats in 2010 parliamentary election
Part of the four-party centre-right coalition with four cabinet positions
Freedom and Solidarity
Christian democratic and social conservative party
Founded in 1990 Represented in the National
Council with 15 seats Was a member of the previous
government coalition, but abandoned that coalition on 7 February 2006 because of disputes regarding an international treaty between Slovakia and the Holy See dealing with the Conscientious objection
Won 8.3% of the popular vote in 2006 parliamentary election and 14 out of 150 seats
Member of the European People’s Party
Christian Democratic Movement
Centre-right inter-ethnic cooperation party
Founded on 30 June 2009 by defectors from the Party of the Hungarian Coalition
Calls for cooperation and understanding between ethnic Slovaks and Hungarian minority
Has ten members of the National Council and is part of the centre-right coalition government
Led by Béla Bugár; the party claims to have a membership that is two-thirds Hungarian and one-third ethnic Slovak
Won ten seats in National Council in 2010 parliamentary election
Most–Híd (literally Bridge)
Ultranationalist, Anti-Hungarian, Right-wing populist party
Characterizes itself as socialist, nationalist party on what it calls the “European Christian system of values”
Founded in December 1989 Has won seats in every Slovak
parliamentary election since 1990 except one (in 2002) ; formed a coalition with Smer
Was considered by Party of European Socialists a “political party which incites or attempts to stir up racial or ethnic prejudices and racial hatred”
Slovak National Party
Centre-right conservative soft eurosceptic party
Founded on 10 November 2001 as a parliamentary schism from the Democratic Party
Has won four seats in National Council, which it won in an electoral alliance with Most–Híd in 2010 parliamentary election
Has relied on electoral alliances with other centre-right parties like the Christian Democratic Movement and Conservative Democrats of Slovakia
Member of Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists
Civic Conservative Party
Christian democratic, liberal conservative party for ethnic Hungarian minority
Founded in 1998 Led by Pál Csáky (formerly by
Béla Bugár) until 2010 parliamentary election where it did not receive 5% of the popular vote; Csáky responded by resigning
Became a member of European People’s Party on 7 June 2000
Its MEPs sit in the EPP-ED Group in European Parliament
Party of the Hungarian Coalition
Centrist national conservative, right-wing populist party
Founded on 27 April 1991 Was the governing party from
1992 to 1998 (with a short break in 1994) and the largest party from 1991 to 2006
Led by Vladimír Mečiar Has been part of the Slovak
Government three times: twice as leading partner with Mečiar as PM (1992-94 and 1994-98) and once from 2006-2010 as junior partner under Robert Fico
People’s Party – Movement for a Democratic Slovakia
3rd and current President of the Slovak Republic
Born on 27 March 1941 in Poltár Is the first Slovak president to
be re-elected Previously served as Member of
National Council from 23 June 1992-15 October 2002 and Speaker of National Council 1 January 1993-30 October 1998
After the Velvet Revolution and the collapse of the Communist government, he was chosen by democratically elected president Václav Havel to be the country’s federal Prosecutor-General
Ivan Gašparovič
Current PM of Slovakia Born 15 September 1964 in Topoľčany Was also PM from 2006-2010 Graduated from Law Faculty of Comenius
University at Bratislava, in former Czechoslovakia, later working for Institute of State and Law of Slovak Academy of Sciences
Joined Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in 1987
After non-violent Velvet Revolution of 1989, and fall of the communist government in Czechoslovakia, he joined Party of the Democratic Left (SDL), a heir to Communist Party of Slovakia
Represented Slovakia as its legal counsel at European Court of Human Rights between 1994 and 2000, but did not win any of the 14 cases he handled
Departed from SDL in 1999, when endorsement for SDL fell below threshold needed to get into parliament and founded Direction – Social Democracy (SMER), becoming popular opposition politician while critizcing changes of right-wing government of Mikuláš Dzurinda
Robert Fico
Direction – Social Democracy: 29.5% Slovak National Party: 7.7% People’s Party – Movement for a Democratic
Slovakia: 5% Slovak Democratic and Christian Union –
Democratic Party: 12.1% Freedom and Solidarity: 12.4% Christian Democratic Movement: 9.2% Most–Híd: 6.5% Party of the Hungarian Coalition: 5.2%
Results of 2010 parliamentary election (June)
Direction – Social Democracy: 44.41% Christian Democratic Movement: 8.82% Ordinary People and Independent Personalities:
8.55% Most–Híd: 6.89% Slovak Democratic and Christian Union –
Democratic Party: 6.09% Freedom and Solidarity: 5.88%
Results of 2012 parliamentary election
Koniec (The End)