Slovak parliamentary election, 2002
- KSS: 11
- SMER: 25
- ANO: 15
- SDKÚ: 28
- KDH: 15
- HZDS: 36
- SMK: 20
The parliamentary elections in Slovakia in 2002 the National Council was held on Friday and Saturday, 20 and 21 September 2002. There were to be awarded 150 seats in parliament.
The bourgeois parties won the election scarce, so that the outgoing Prime Minister Mikuláš Dzurinda was able to form his second government.
Electoral system
The National Council was elected under the proportional method. There was a minimum threshold of 5 % for individual parties for a coalition of two or three parties, and 7% for four or more parties 10%. The legislature was four years.
Participating parties and candidates
26 political parties and movements with a total of 2619 candidates competed in the election.
Choice
The turnout was much lower than in the last election year with 70.06 %.
A total of about 4.15 million eligible voters were invited to cast their vote on 20 and 21 September 2002.
Election result
Although the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia ( HZDS ) with almost 20 % could win the election, as in the last ten years previously, this was the lowest score in the decade and the party could not form the new government. The right / neo-liberal parties Slovak Democratic and Christian Union ( SDKU ) Party of the Hungarian Coalition (SMK -MKP ), Christian Democratic Movement (KDH ) and Alliance of the New Citizen ( ANO ) reached along a narrow majority of 78 seats. From the political left, the party moved towards ( SMER ) by Robert Fico entered parliament as the third largest party, whereas the Communist Party of Slovakia (KSS ) for the first time in independent Slovakia received a representation with 6.32%.
The internal conflict within the Slovak National Party, which parted before the election, resulted in a poor showing for both parties. Neither the True Slovak National Party ( PSNS ) nor the Slovak National Party (SNS ) could enter parliament.
The result was well received by both the Western governments as well as by NATO and the EU ( Slovakia was at this time in the negotiation phase ), since the possibility of a government with Meciar's party HZDS by Slovakia in the isolation of 1990 in the years brought, had reduced. Two years after the election Slovakia joined both organizations.