Social Democrats (Slovenia)
The Socialni democratic (SD, German Social Democrats ) are a Slovenian party. They are made of Združena lista socialnih demokratov 2005: emerged ( German United List of Social Democrats ) and currently represent the third largest group in the Slovenian Parliament. Its chairman is Borut Pahor. You are a member of the Party of European Socialists and presented with Milan Kučan the first President of Slovenia. 2007 won their candidate Danilo Türk election as President of Slovenia. From 2008 to 2012, the SD presented with their party leader Borut Pahor Slovenian Prime Minister.
History
In 1989 there were clashes in the League of Communists of Yugoslavia on the decisions of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia, in which the right to secede from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was established.
On January 23, 1990, the Slovene delegation left under the leadership of Milan Kučan the congress of the Communist League and was shortly thereafter called " party of democratic renewal " ( Stranka demokratične prenove ). In the first multi-party elections in Slovenia in April 1990 with 17.28 %, the SDP achieved the highest share of the vote. Since the parties of DEMOS with 54 % of the vote received the majority and the Christian Democrats Lojze Peterle questioned the government that SDP went into opposition.
At the parliamentary elections in late 1992 after the failure of the government Peterle, the first after independence from Yugoslavia, formed the SDP, was renamed the meantime in " Socialist Renewal" ( Socialdemokratska Prenova ), an electoral alliance with several other parties: Workers' Party ( Delavska stranka ), social Democratic Union ( Socialdemokratska unija / SDU ) and parts of the Socialist Party ( Socialistična stranka Slovenije ) and the Democratic Party of Pensioners ( Demokratična stranka upokojencev / DeSUS ). This electoral alliance took the name Združena lista ( United List ).
In the parliamentary elections in December 1992, the United List reached 13.58 % and formed a grand coalition with the Liberal Democrats ( LDS) and the Slovenian Christian Democrats ( SKD ), where they presented four ministers ( economy, work, family and social affairs; science, culture ).
Shortly after the election victory emerged under the name of United List of Social Democrats ( Združena lista socialnih demokratov / ZLSD ) a new party by combining the SDP, Workers' Party, SDU and parts of the Socialist Party and of DeSUS. The first chairman was Janez Kocijančič.
In January 1996, the Social Democrats came out on the basis of disputes in social policy, particularly in the issue of pensions from the government.
In March 1997, the 3rd Congress in Ljubljana Borut Pahor its Chairman, who was re-elected in Koper 2001.
After their election victory in October 2000, the ZLSD formed on 15 November 2000 a government with the Liberal Democrats, the coalition of People's Party and the Christian Democrats ( SLS SKD ) and the Pensioners' Party. The ZLSD conformed to the second strongest partner three ministries ( Labour, Family and Social Affairs; culture; affairs).
In the 2004 elections the ZLSD, as in 2000 the third strongest party was, however, went into opposition, Janez Janša of SDS formed with the New Slovenia ( formerly part of Christian Democrats) and DESUS the new government.
On their fifth Party Congress on 2 April 2005 in Ljubljana, the Social Democratic Party renamed itself " social democrats " ( Socialni democratic, SD). The SD fraction was strongest opposition group through conversion of other parliamentarians on 20 March 2007. From the parliamentary elections on 21 September 2008, the SD was 30.6 percent of the vote and became the strongest force. On 7 November 2008 its leader Borut Pahor was elected by the National Assembly ( Državni zbor ) in the Office of the Prime Minister.
Pahor's government collapsed in September 2011, the National Assembly awarded her the distrust of. In the early parliamentary elections in December 2011, the SD lost two thirds of its votes and was only the third strongest party in the National Assembly.