Slovak National Party

An ultranationalist political party in Slovakia. The party characterizes itself as a nationalist party based on what is regards as social and European Christian values.

Since 1990 SNS has won seats in every Slovak parliament but three (in 2002, 2012 and 2020) and was part of the coalition government formed after the 2006 election with Robert Fico's Direction – Social Democracy (Smer-SD). In the 2012 parliamentary election, SNS failed to meet the 5% electoral threshold and thus lost parliamentary representation. At the following party congress in October 2012, the delegates chose lawyer Andrej Danko as the new chairman of the party. Under Danko SNS returned to another coalition government with Smer-SD after the 2016 Slovak parliamentary election. In the next election in 2020, the party again failed to meet the threshold for parliamentary representation. In the next election, SNS again returned in 2023 and once again formed a coalition government with Fico.

Chairperson: Víťazoslav Móric (1990–1991), Jozef Prokeš (1991–1992), Ľudovít Černák (1992–1994), Ján Slota (1994–1999), Anna Malíková (1999–2003), Ján Slota (2003–2012), Andrej Danko (2012–present)