Slovenian Democratic Party

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The Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS — Slovenian: Slovenska demokratska stranka), previously the Social Democratic Party of Slovenia (Slovenian: Socialdemokratska stranka Slovenije) is a political party in Slovenia. It is led by Janez Janša.

At the European election it got 17.7% which yielded 2 seats in the European parliament out of a total 7 from Slovenia. It is a member of the EPP party group.

The Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) is a democratic political organisation which today associates the membership and the legal inheritance of the former Social-Democratic Union of Slovenia and the Slovenian Democratic Union - two powerful parties of the former DEMOS coalition which, after the defeat of the communist regime in the 1990 elections, carried out the democratisation of Slovenia and led the quest for the gaining of Slovenian independence and international recognition of Slovenia. The Slovenian Democratic Union was founded in January, and the Social-Democratic Union in February 1989. Both parties (unions) promoted from their very beginning a democratic political order, a market economy, personal freedom of the individual, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, respect for minority rights and the inclusion of Slovenia in the Euro - Atlantic integrations. Both parties have, in their programs, clearly opposed any totalitarianism, whether communist or fascist.

At the last legislative elections, 3 October 2004, the party won 29.1% of the popular vote and 29 out of 90 seats. It was given a six-point plurality over the past governing Liberal Democracy of Slovenia (Slovenian: Liberalna Demokracija Slovenije); as of 2005 the SDS leads a governing coalition consisting of four parties.

Slovenian democratic party also combine within itself several organizations, one of them is the largest political youth organization in Slovenia, called Slovenian Democratic Youth (SDY). It has over 5.000 members, its current leader is Nikolaj Oblak.

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