The document provides information on the government and politics of Slovakia. It notes that Slovakia is a parliamentary republic led by President Ivan Gašparovič and Prime Minister Robert Fico. It outlines the major political parties in Slovakia and election results from 1998 to 2012, with Robert Fico's Direction – Social Democracy party receiving the most votes in recent elections.

1. Made by: Benedict S. Gombocz

2.  Government (Vláda):
Parliamentary republic
and multi-party
democracy
 President (Prezident
Slovensko): Ivan
Gašparovič
 Prime Minister
(Predseda vlády
Slovenskej republiky):
Robert Fico

3.  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)

4.  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)

5.  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)

6.  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

7.  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

8.  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

9.  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

10.  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

11.  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”

12.  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

13.  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

14.  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

15.  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

16.  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

17.  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%

18.  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%