The Democratic Union (, DÚ) was a

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party in

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History

The party was established on 25 March 1995 by a merger of the

Democratic Union of Slovakia The Democratic Union of Slovakia (, DEÚS) was a political party in Slovakia led by Jozef Moravčík. History The party was created on 23 April 1994 by a merger of and the . In the 1994 Slovak parliamentary election, parliamentary elections in ...

and the National Democratic Party, and was led by was

Eduard Kukan Eduard Kukan (26 December 1939 – 10 February 2022) was a Slovakian politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs (Slovakia), Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1998 to 2006. He was a candidate in the 2004 Slovakia presidential election, p ...

. In 1998, it joined the

Slovak Democratic Coalition The Slovak Democratic Coalition (, SDK) was an electoral platform—constituted as an instrumental political party—for the 1998 parliamentary election. The party split in 2000, when some members rejoined their original parties, while others, l ...

, and in 2000, it merged into the

Slovak Democratic and Christian Union Slovak may refer to: * Something from, related to, or belonging to Slovakia (''Slovenská republika'') * Slovaks, a Western Slavic ethnic group * Slovak language, an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Slavic languages * Slovak, Arkan ...

References

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