Template:Politics of Slovakia
Political parties in Slovakia lists political parties in Slovakia.
Slovakia has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments.
The parties
Currently relevant parties (as of early 2005)
Parties relevant in the past
- Democratic Party (Demokratická strana) - an important party between 1944 and 1948, this is also a current party
- Democratic Union (Demokratická únia) - in the government between 1998 and 2002, now part of the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union
- Communist Party of Slovakia (Komunistická strana Slovenska) - leading force between 1948 and 1989, this is also a current party
- 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)
- 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)
- Slovak National Party (Slovenská národná strana)- in existence between 1870 and 1938, this is also a current party
- Slovak People's Party (Slovenská ľudová strana) - between 1913/1918 and 1945
- Party of Civic Understanding (Strana občianskeho porozumenia) - 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 Party of Slovakia (Sociálnodemokratická strana Slovenska) - arose in 1990, see also Alexander Dubček
- Union of the Workers of Slovakia (Združenie robotníkov Slovenska) - in the government between 1994 and 1998, split from the Strana demokratickej ľavice
- 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) )
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