Slovenian Democratic Party
The Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenian Slovenska Demokratska stranka, abbreviation SDS) is a political party in Slovenia. She is a member of the European People's Party. Its chairman since 1993, Janez Janša.
History
The SDS was founded as a Social Democratic Federation of Slovenia ( Slovenije Socialdemokratska zveza SDZS ) on 16 February 1989. Its first chairman was leader of the opposition union Neodvisnost, France Tomšič, which in November 1989 was followed by Jože Pučnik.
One of the first multi-party elections in Slovenia on April 8, 1990, the SDZS formed with other opposition parties - the Slovenian Democratic Confederation ( Slovenska demokratična zveza SDZ ), the Slovene Christian Democrats ( Slovenski krščanski democratic SKD), the Slovenian Farmers' Federation ( Slovenska kmečka zveza ), the Slovenian artisan Party ( Slovenska Obrtniška stranka ) and the Greens of Slovenia ( Slovenije Zeleni ) the DEMOS coalition, which won the elections with 52 % of the vote and the Christian Democrats Lojze Peterle formed a government.
1992, the SDZS renamed in Social Democratic Party of Slovenia ( Slovenije Socialdemokratska stranka SDSS). At the Third Party Congress in May 1993, Janez Janša, was chairman of the party re-elected on the party conferences in 1995, 1999, 2001 and 2005.
Many of today's members of the SDS are from the Slovenian Democratic Confederation ( Slovenska demokratična zveza SDZ ) and the Slovenian Social Democratic Federation ( Socialdemokratska zveza Slovenije SDZS ).
In 2000, the SDS formed an alliance with the party New Slovenia. In 2004 it was renamed the Slovenian Democratic Party.
On 3 October 2004, the SDS was obtained during the Slovenian parliamentary elections 29.1 % of the votes and thus became the strongest force in the national parliament. Since then, she worked with the Prime Minister of Slovenia Janez Janša.
In the parliamentary elections on 21 September 2008, the SDS reached 29.3%; due to losses of their former coalition partners, they may represent no more government.
In early parliamentary elections on 4 December 2011, the SDS was second strongest political force after the newly founded party Pozitivna Slovenija. After negotiations with four smaller parties, the SDS formed a center-right coalition; Janez Janša was elected on January 28, 2012 as the successor Borut Pahor as the new Prime Minister of Slovenia.
Party tradition
The SDS considers himself a successor, which was founded in Ljubljana on 15 and August 16, 1896 Yugoslav Social Democratic Party ( Jugoslovanska socialdemokratska stranka JSDS ), which saw itself as a workers' party of all South Slavic areas of Austria-Hungary, in 1941 and was banned again in 1945.
Party youth
The youth organization SDM ( Slovenska Demokratska Mladina ) founded in October 1989, is the oldest and currently the largest party Youth Association of Slovenia. Its first chairman was Matej Makarovic, presently there is Nikolaj Oblak.