List of political parties in Slovakia

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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] Today they have 58 active parties [2]

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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

ListPartiesLeaderIdeologyPrevious electionCurrent seats
Votes (%)Seats
SMER–SD Robert Fico Left-wing populism
Social conservatism
22.95%
42 / 150
41 / 150
PS Michal Šimečka Social liberalism
Pro-Europeanism
17.96%
32 / 150
33 / 150
HLAS–SD Matúš Šutaj Eštok Social democracy
Pro-Europeanism
14.70%
27 / 150
27 / 150
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 Igor Matovič Conservatism
Populism
8.90%
16 / 150
14 / 150
KDH Milan Majerský Christian democracy
Pro-Europeanism
6.82%
12 / 150
11 / 150
SaS Branislav Gröhling Classical liberalism
Libertarianism
6.32%
11 / 150
11 / 150
SNS Andrej Danko National conservativism
Right-wing populism
5.63%
10 / 150
8 / 150

Extra-parliamentary parties

NameFoundedLeaderMisc.
Change from Below 2000 Ján Budaj
Common Citizens of Slovakia 2023Tibor Hanuliak
Common Sense2013 Ján Baránek From 2013 to 2024 it was named The Magnificent 7 Is the Way.
Communist Party of Slovakia 1991Jozef HrdličkaThe party has not been represented in parliament since 2006
Dawn 2005Luciana HoptováThe party split from the Communist Party of Slovakia
Democrats 2018 Eduard Heger Until 2023 it was named TOGETHER – Civic Democracy.
Democrats of Slovakia 2005Ľudovít KaníkUntil 2015 was named Prosperity of Slovakia.
Forum 2019 Zsolt Simon From 2019 to 2024 it was named Hungarian Forum.
Home National Party 2005Pavol Slota
Hungarian Alliance 2019 Krisztián Forró From 2019 to 2021 it was named Hungarian Community Togetherness. From 2021 to 2023 it was named Alliance.
Let's try another way2019Veronika Gajdošová LadňákováIn 2019 the party was named To the right. Until 2022 the party was named The voice of the right.
Life - National Party 2019 Tomáš Taraba
Mayors and Independent Candidates2009František GőghFrom 2011 to 2014 it was named Party +1 Vote
Most-Híd 2023 2004 László Sólymos From 2004 to 2011 it was named Regions Party of Slovakia. From 2011 to 2013 it was named Party of Entrepreneurs of Slovakia. From 2013 to 2023 it was named Hungarian Christian Democratic Alliance.
Movement Citizen Nation Justice 2014Ivan StanovičThe party was named JEDNOTA - the left-wing party of Slovakia.
MySlovakia 2015Štefan PanenkaFrom 2015 to 2019 it was named Slovak Civic Coalition. From 2019 to 2023 it was named SOLIDARITY – Working Poverty Movement.
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 2010Rudolf HuliakFrom 2010 to 2013 the party was named Paliho Kapurková, Cheerful Political Party
ODS – Civic Democrats of Slovakia 2014 Pavel Macko Until 2022 the party was named Trebiš's Voice.
Party of Modern Slovakia 2008 Milan Urbáni The party split from the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia
Party of municipalities and cities - I AM SLOVAKIA2022Jozef Krúpa
Party of the Roma Coalition2009Gejza Adam
Patriotic Bloc 2014Ivan StanovičUntil 2022 it was named JEDNOTA – The left-wing party of Slovakia.
People's Party Fortress Slovakia1995Martin BeluskýUntil 2017 it was named People's Party.
People's Party Our Slovakia 2010 Marian Kotleba
Pirate Party Slovakia 2010Michal PírekUntil 2015 it was named Our Region.
Principle 2010Atila GéňaUntil 2016 it was named Party of the Roma Union in Slovakia
Republic Movement 2021 Milan Uhrík
Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party 2000Milan Roman
Slovak PATRIOT 2021 Miroslav Radačovský
Slovak Revival Movement 2004 Róbert Švec
Srdce - Slovak National Unity - the party of patriots1991Vladimír ZemanUntil 2014 the party was named Slovak National Unityx
Socialisti.sk 2019 Artur Bekmatov
The Blues – ES 2023 Mikuláš Dzurinda
The work of the Slovak nation2010Roman StopkaUntil 2013 the party was named Slovak Democratic Alliance. From 2013 to 2016 the party was named HLAS - Democratic Alliance of Slovakia.
Union of the Slovak Self-Employed2004Vladimír Krivjaník
United Slovak National Party2003Peter LisýUntil 2004 the party was named Unitary Slovak National Party
We Are Family 2015 Boris Kollár

Inactive and defunct 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

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    References

    1. ↑ "Register of Parties". Archived from the original on 12 July 2012.
    2. ↑ https://ives.minv.sk/rez/registre/pages/list.aspx?type=ps [ bare URL ]
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