The Movement for Democracy ( sk, Hnutie za demokraciu) was a
political party
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in
Slovakia
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created in 2002 when it split from the
Movement for a Democratic Slovakia. From 2002 to 2004 the first leader of the party was
Ivan Gašparovič
Ivan Gašparovič (; born 27 March 1941) is a Slovak politician and lawyer who was third president of Slovakia from 2004 to 2014. He was also the first and currently the only Slovak president to be re-elected.
Biography
Ivan Gašparovič was ...
, who served as president of Slovakia from 2004 to 2014. The leader since 2004 was
Jozef Grapa.
In the
parliamentary election of 17 June 2006, the party won 0.6% of the popular vote and lost parliamentary representation. Movement for Democracy was part of the
Alliance for Europe of the Nations
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History
The AEN was founded in 2002, designed to complement the existing ...
from 2002 to 2009.
After 2010, the party became inactive, but not formally disbanded. Its
shell
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was taken over by former founding member
Peter Marček who renamed it to "Voice of the People" ''(Hlas Ľudu)'' in December 2018. The party was later renamed to
Republic.
Leaders
See also
*
List of political parties in Slovakia
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. ...
Party site
Official website of the Movement for Democracy(archived in 2008)
References
Conservative parties in Slovakia
Nationalist parties in Slovakia
Political parties established in 2002
Political parties disestablished in 2018
Political parties disestablished in 2021
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