CITIZENS (Slovak political party)

Strana Slobodné Slovo - Nory Mojsejovej ( officially: STRANA SLOBODNÉ SLOVO - NORY MOJSEJOVEJ, short SSS NM; German Party Free Word by Nora Mojsejová ) is a Slovak party. In the period from 2001 to 2011, the party Aliancia Nového občana called (short ANO; German Alliance of the New Citizen ).

The party was founded by the former owner of the private television station Markíza Pavol Rusko. Markíza had by all Slovak media have the greatest impact on public opinion. After the 2002 elections, the ANO moved because of the strong support of tending to their party president media ( private television Markíza, Radio OKEY and small national newspaper Národná obroda ) in the parliament.

The character of the party leadership could well be compared with the management of a private company. The ANO was funded from the start mainly from the sources of its chairman, what its leadership position within the party strengthened simultaneously.

From the party ideological perspective, they always presented itself as a liberal party. She belonged to the Liberal International and the European Liberal Democratic Reform Party. In 2005, after the corruption scandal of the party chairman, she was excluded from the government, which immediately ten deputies were expelled from the party because of the support of the government Dzurinda. After the corruption scandal Ruskos the majority of its members left the party. The electorate had the party no longer familiar and different at the elections of 2006.

In November 2011, the entrepreneur Nora Mojsejová from Košice, known from the reality show Mojsejovci, took over the party after an agreement with Pavol Rusko, and finally renamed to the present name. By his own admission, the party will neither left nor right lane. In the parliamentary elections on 10 March 2012, the party received only 1.2 % of the vote and is not represented in Parliament.