List of political parties in Slovakia

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

Parliamentary parties

Name	Abbr.	Est.	Ideology	Leader	MPs	MEPs
Ordinary People and Independent Personalities Obyčajní ľudia a nezávislé osobnosti New Majority[2] Nová väčšina Christian Union Kresťanská Únia Change from below Zmena zdola	OĽaNO–NOVA–ZMENA ZDOLA–KÚ	2011	Centre-right; Christian democracy, Social conservatism, Pro-Europeanism	Igor Matovič (OĽaNO) Gábor Grendel (NOVA) Ján Budaj (ZMENA ZDOLA) Anna Záborská (KÚ)	53	1
Direction – Social Democracy Smer – sociálna demokracia	SMER–SD	1999	Centre-left; Social democracy, Social patriotism, Left-wing nationalism	Robert Fico	26	3
We Are Family – Boris Kollár SME RODINA – Boris Kollár	Sme rodina	2015	Right-wing; National conservatism, Euroscepticism	Boris Kollár	17	0
People's Party – Our Slovakia Ľudová strana – Naše Slovensko	ĽSNS	2010	Far-right; Neo-fascism, Neo-Nazism, Hard Euroscepticism	Marian Kotleba	14	1
Freedom and Solidarity Sloboda a Solidarita	SaS	2009	Centre-right; Liberalism, Euroscepticism	Richard Sulík	13	2
For the People ZA ĽUDÍ	ZA ĽUDÍ	2019	Centre to Centre-right; Catch-all, Big tent, Liberalism	Veronika Remišová	12	0
Voice – Social Democracy HLAS – sociálna demokracia	HLAS-SD	2020	Centre-left; Social democracy, Pro-Europeanism	Peter Pellegrini	11	0
Progressive Slovakia Progresívne Slovensko TOGETHER – Civic Democracy SPOLU – Občianska demokracia	PS–SPOLU	2017	Centre to centre-left; Social liberalism, Liberal conservatism	Irena Bihariová (PS) Juraj Hipš (SPOLU)	0	4
Christian Democratic Movement Kresťanskodemokratické hnutie	KDH	1990	Centre-right; Christian democracy, Social conservatism	Milan Majerský	0	2

Extra-parliamentary parties

Name	Founded	Leader	Misc.
Most-Híd	2009	Béla Bugár
Democratic Party	2006	Michal Kravčík
Hungarian forum	2019	Zsolt Simon
Slovak National Party	1989	Andrej Danko
Good Choice	2019	Tomáš Drucker
Socialists.sk	2019	Eduard Chmelár
Homeland	2019	Štefan Harabin
99 Percent – Civic Voice	2011	Ivan Weiss	Affiliated with the NGO OZ Občan v akci
Agrarian Countryside Party	2003	Vladimír Gozora
Slovak Democratic Alliance	2010	Miroslav Lupták
European Democratic Party	2006	Antonio Parziale
Movement for Democracy	2002	Jozef Grapa	The party split from the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia
United Slovakia	2000	Štefan Gavorník
Communist Party of Slovakia	1991	Jozef Hrdlička	The party has not been represented in parliament since 2006
Conservative Democrats of Slovakia	2008-2014	Vladimír Palko	The party split from Christian Democratic Movement
Christian People's Party	1998	Jozef Fibich
Liberal Party	2003	Gustáv Krajči	Formerly People's Union, the party split from the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS).
People's Party	1995	Magdaléna Sulanová
Magnificat Slovakia	2012	Anton Selecký	The party is affiliated with the Christian NGO OZ Magnificat Slovakia.
Nation and Justice – Our Party	2011	Anna Belousovová	The party split from Slovak National Party (SNS), until 2011 it was named Nation and Justice.
Our Region	2010	Ľuba Kráľová
Independent Forum	1998	Tomáš Černý
New Slovak Alternative, Civic-Liberal Party	2008	Pavol Krišpinský
New Democracy	2009	Tibor Mikuš	The party split from the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia
New Parliament	2005	Jozef Behýl
Civic Conservative Party	2001	Peter Zajac
Civic Party TODAY	2011	Branislav Král
Civic Liberals	2004	Rastislav Guľaša
Ordinary People	2005	Víťazoslav Moric
Paliho Kapurková, Cheerful Political Party	2010	Pavel Vass
Law and Justice	2011	Peter Puškár
Prosperity of Slovakia	2005	František Alexander Zvrškovec
We are Doing It for the Children - Free Forum	2004-2016	Zuzana Martináková	The party split from the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union
Roma initiative of Slovakia	1996	Alexander Patkoló	Until 2000 the party was named Roma Intelligence for Co-Habitation in the Slovak Republic
Freedom	1998	Tomáš Pekný
Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party	2000	Milan Roman
Slovak People's Party	1990	Jozef Sásik	From 1994 to 1995 the party was named SĽS - Slovak People's Bloc
Modern Slovak Society	2001	Ján Garai
Slovak National Unity	1991	Stanislav Pánis
Party +1 Vote	2009	Martin Kuruc
Party of the Democratic Left	2005-2015	Marek Blaha
Party of Modern Slovakia	2008	Milan Urbáni	The party split from the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia
Party of Slovak Citizens	2011	Peter Marček
Party of Patriots	2010	František Jašík
Labor Party	1991	Anton Čapkovič	The party is active only in Košice and surrounding areas.
Party of the Hungarian Community	1998	József Menyhárt
Party of the Roma Coalition	2009	Gejza Adam
Party of the Roma Union in Slovakia	2010	František Tanko
Idea	2001-2011	Miroslav Leňo	The party was named 'Alliance of the New Citizen' until 2011 and 'Free Word Party of Nora Mojsejová' until 2013
Green Party	1991	Peter Pilinský	Until 2006 the party was named Slovak Green Party
Slovak Green Party	2006	Martin Čulen
Union of the Slovak Self-Employed	2004	Vladimír Krivjaník
Dawn	2005	Ivan Hopta	The party split from the Communist Party of Slovakia.
RESISTANCE - Party of Work	2014	Stanislav Pirošík	A Marxist–Leninist party, member of ICOR
Union of the Workers of Slovakia	1994	Ján Ľupták	Part of the government between 1994 and 1998, split from the Party of the Democratic Left
Green Wave	2009	Mário Mikloši
Greens	2009	Pavel Hraško	The party was founded as AZEN - Alliance for the Europe of Nations
Greens - Party of National Prosperity	1990	Rudolf Pardubský	Until 2006 the party was named Party of National Prosperity
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)

Alliance of the New Citizen (Aliancia nového občana) – founded in 2001, government participation between 2002–05, extra-parliamentary since 2006, inactive in the late-2000s, legally succeeded by the 'Free Word Party of Nora Mojsejová' in 2011 and IDEA since 2013
Democratic Union (Demokratická únia) - in the government between 1998 and 2002, now part of the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union
Civic Democratic Union (Občianska demokratická únia) - arose in 1991, its members are now in the Democratic Party and the small Civic Conservative Party (Občianska konzervatívna strana)
Left Bloc (Ľavicový blok) - merged into Direction - Social Democracy in 2007/2008
Slovak Democratic Coalition (Slovenská demokratická koalícia) - in existence from 1997 (as a coalition) / 1998 (as a party) to (?)2001, in the government from 1998 to 2001
Party of Civic Understanding (Strana občianskeho porozumenia) - (SOP) - in the government between 1998 and 2002
Party of the Democratic Left (Strana demokratickej ľavice) - before 2002, arose in 1990 from the Communist Party of Slovakia
Social Democratic Alternative (Sociálnodemokratická alternatíva)
Social Democratic Party of Slovakia (Sociálnodemokratická strana Slovenska) - arose in 1990, see also Alexander Dubček
Public against Violence (Verejnosť proti násiliu) - the first party after the fall of the Communists in late 1989, ceased in 1991 (split into the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS) and the Civic Democratic Union (Občianska demokratická únia, ODU) )
True Slovak National Party (Pravá Slovenská národná strana) - Founded by Ján Slota in 2001 after being forced out of the Slovak National Party (SNS) by Anna Belousovová (at that time called Anna Malíková), the two parties re-merged in 2005 after both failing to get seats in the Parliament.

Political parties in Slovakia (1948–1989)

Communist Party of Slovakia (1939) - leading force between 1948 and 1989
Party of Slovak Revival (Strana slovenskej obrody) - arose in 1948 from the Democratic Party (see above, see also National Front (Czechoslovakia)), ceased in late 1989 when the new Democratic Party was founded (see above)

Political parties in Slovakia (1945–1948)

Democratic Party (Demokratická strana) - an important party between 1944 and 1948, a new DS arose in 1989, since January 2006 part of the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union - Democratic Party
Freedom Party (Strana slobody) - Christian Republican party led by Vavro Šrobár.
Labour Party (Strana práce) - formed by Social Democrats who opposed cooperation with the Communist Party.

Political parties in Slovakia (1939–1945)

Hlinka's Slovak People's Party – Party of Slovak National Unity (HSĽS–SSNJ) - between 1913/1918 and 1945, after 1925 known as Hlinka's Slovak People's Party. The party was led by Slovak priest Andrej Hlinka (1913–1938) and ended with the hanging of the WWII Slovak leader Jozef Tiso (1938–1945).

References

NOVA ran thirty-four candidates on the OĽaNO list in the 2016 elections.

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[2] NOVA ran thirty-four candidates on the OĽaNO list in the 2016 elections.

Political parties in Slovakia
In the National Council (150 seats)	Ordinary People and Independent Personalities (53) Direction – Social Democracy (26) We Are Family (17) Kotlebists – People's Party Our Slovakia (14) Freedom and Solidarity (13) For the People (12) Non-Inscrits (15)
In the European Parliament (13 seats)	Progresívne Slovensko / SPOLU – občianska demokracia (4) Direction – Social Democracy (3) Kotlebists – People's Party Our Slovakia (2) Christian Democratic Movement (2) Freedom and Solidarity (2) Ordinary People and Independent Personalities (1)
Extra-parliamentary parties	ASV Dawn DÚ Forward Hope HZD IDEA KČaS KDH KDS KĽS KSS ĽB ĽS LS Mission 21 Most–Híd NF NOSNP OKS OL PS PS RIS SDĽ SF SLNKO SĽS SNJ S.O.S. TOGETHER SPS SP SPV-G3000 SRK SRS SZ SZS SKS SNS VZDOR ZRS Z-SNP ŽS ZSNS 99%
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