Communist Party of Slovakia
Appearance
Communist Party of Slovakia Komunistická strana Slovenska | |
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Leader | Jozef Hrdlička |
Founded | 29 August 1992 |
Merger of | KSS '91 ZKS |
Headquarters | Bratislava |
Newspaper | Kroky (The Steps) |
Membership (2022) | 1,547 (![]() |
Ideology | Communism[2] Marxism–Leninism[3] |
Political position | Far-left[2] |
European affiliation | INITIATIVE PEL (Observer) |
International affiliation | IMCWP |
Colours | Red |
Slogan | Záruka lepšieho života (A guarantee of a better life) |
National Council | 0 / 150 |
European Parliament | 0 / 15 |
Presidents of self-governing regions | 0 / 8 |
Regional parliaments | 0 / 408 |
Local councils | 62 / 20,646 |
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The Communist Party of Slovakia (Slovak: Komunistická strana Slovenska, KSS) is a communist party in Slovakia, formed in 1992 through the merger of the Communist Party of Slovakia – 91 and the Communist League of Slovakia.
The party is observer of the Party of the European Left although it criticizes the Political Theses for the 1st Congress of European Left.[4] For the 2019 European Parliament election the KSS formed a unity list together with VZDOR – strana práce. The list was called Socialistický Front.[5][6] It received 0.62% of the votes.
Electoral results
[edit]Results since 1992 (year links to election page) | ||||||||
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Year | Leader | Type of Election | Votes | % | Seats | |||
1992 | Vladimír Ďaďo | Parliament | 23,349 | 0.76% | 0 | |||
1994 | Parliament | 78,419 | 2.73% | 0 | ||||
1998 | Parliament | 94,015 | 2.79% | 0 | ||||
2002 | Jozef Ševc | Parliament | 181,872 | 6.33% | 11 | |||
2004 | European Parliament | 31,908 | 4.54% | 0 | ||||
2006 | Parliament | 89,418 | 3.88% | 0 | ||||
2009 | Jozef Hrdlička | European Parliament | 13,643 | 1.65% | 0 | |||
2010 | Parliament | 21,104 | 0.83% | 0 | ||||
2012 | Parliament | 18,583 | 0.72% | 0 | ||||
2014 | European Parliament | 8,510 | 1.51% | 0 | ||||
2016 | Parliament | 16,278 | 0.62% | 0 | ||||
2019 [a] | European Parliament | 6,199 | 0.63% | 0 | ||||
2023 | Parliament | 9,867 | 0.33% | 0 |
See also
[edit]- Communist Party of Slovakia (1939)
- Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
- Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia
- Politics of Slovakia
- List of political parties in Slovakia
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Výročná správa KSS za rok 2023" [KSS Annual Report for 2023] (PDF) (in Slovak). Bratislava: Communist Party of Slovakia. 4 April 2024.
- ^ a b March, Luke (2008). Contemporary Far Left Parties in Europe (PDF). Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. p. 3. ISBN 978-3-86872-000-6. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2011-09-09. Retrieved 2018-02-18.
- ^ "Program KSS". Archived from the original on 2019-06-05. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
- ^ "KomInform: KP der Slowakei (KSS) kritisiert Thesen der EU-Linkspartei". Archived from the original on 2011-06-12. Retrieved 2010-05-25.
- ^ "Zjednotená ľavicová koalícia KSS a VZDORu- strany práce smeruje k voľbám do parlamentu EÚ | VZDOR – strana práce". vzdor.org. Retrieved 2019-03-16.[permanent dead link]
- ^ KSS. "Zjednotená ľavica smeruje k voľbám do Európskeho parlamentu". KSS (in Slovak). Retrieved 2019-03-16.
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