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The Slovak National Party (Slovak: Slovenská národná strana, SNS) is a namely "Christian" and nationalist political party in Slovakia. It was founded in 1990 as an ideological heir of the original Slovak National Party existing in the years 1871-1938.

History

The restored SNS

The Slovak National Party was restored in 1990. The new party is not the successor of the original party de iure (like it is e.g. in the case of the Czech Social Democratic Party), but only an ideological succesor. One of the biggest events the SNS has participated in since then was the establishment of an independent Slovakia on January 1, 1993. The SNS had deputies in the Slovak parliament in the years 1990-2002 and since 2006. The party also had deputies in the Slovak government. Marián Andel, Jozef Prokeš, Jaroslav Paška and Ľudovít Černák were in the second Mečiar government (1992-1994), Ján Sitek and Eva Slavkovská in the third Mečiar government (1994-1998) and three SNS ministers were sworn in with the Robert Fico government on July 4, 2006:

Other political parties confessing to the tradition of the original party

In the years 2001-2003 (2004) and 2005-2006 there was a Real Slovak National Party (Pravá slovenská národná strana, PSNS), a party of SNS splinters, which also regarded itself as an ideological heir of the original SNS. In 2005-2006, there was also a United Slovak National Party (Zjednotená slovenská národná strana, ZSNS), also formed of former SNS members. In February 2006, the two parties merged into the Slovak National Coalition - Slovak Mutuality (Slovenská národná koalícia - Slovenská vzájomnosť). However, only the Slovak National Party is currently relevant.

Results in general elections to Slovak parliament

  • 1990: 13.94%
  • 1992: 7.93%
  • 1994: 5.4%
  • 1998: 9.07%
  • 2002: 3.65% for PSNS, 3.32% for SNS
  • 2006: 11.6%

In the parliamentary election of 17 June 2006, the party won 11.6% of the popular vote and 20 out of 150 seats.

Prominent members

Original party

Restored party

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