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Direction of Slovak Party System After the Parliamentary Elections in 2016
Direction of Slovak Party System After the Parliamentary Elections in 2016

Author(s): Natalia Kováčová, Andrea Jankurova
Subject(s): Security and defense
Published by: Wyższa Szkoła Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego i Indywidualnego “Apeiron” w Krakowie
Keywords: voters;elections;coalition models;political parties;government;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is in the context of the main specifics of the Slovak parliamentary elections in 2016 to highlight the party development in Slovakia and to predict its future direction. Parliamentary elections due to electoral instability and fluctuations determined the configuration of the parliamentary political scene. The proportion of new, nonsystem parties was increased and output was to create surprising ruling coalition which has dissolved the existing ideological and ethnic line. The ambition of the paper is tho highlight the political situation that followed the elections and significantly modified the distribution of political forces existed previously.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 22
  • Page Range: 152-164
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: English