The Blues – ES explained

The Blues – ES
Native Name:Modrí – ES
Abbreviation:MES
Chairman:Ľuboš Schwarzbacher
Leader1 Title:Vice Chairmen
Leader1 Name:Andrej Aleksiev
Jana Ambrošová
Jana Šoková
Founder:Mikuláš Dzurinda
Split:Blue Coalition
Headquarters:Trnavská cesta 37831 04 Bratislava
Ideology:Conservative liberalism
Pro-Europeanism
Position:Centre-right
Colours: Blue
Slogan:«European Slovakia»
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Seats1 Title:National Council
Seats2 Title:European Parliament
Country:Slovakia

The Blues – ES (MES; Slovak: Modrí – ES), formerly called The Blues – European Slovakia (M ; Slovak: Modrí – Európske Slovensko) and Modrí, Most–Híd (MM ; [2]), is a Slovak centre-right political party, registered in May 2023.[3] The initiator of its creation is ex-prime minister Mikuláš Dzurinda, who founded it after he decided to leave the Blue Coalition (now Democrats) project.[4]

Around twenty people are involved in the founding team of the party, including Mikuláš Dzurinda's daughter, social anthropologist and international relations graduate Jana Šoková, computer scientist and mathematician Tomáš Halgaš or youth activist and Christian-democratic politician Milan Kabina.[5] Politician Pál Csáky was also involved in the founding of the party.[6] According to Dzurinda, they want to be a "center-right party of the conservative-liberal type".[7]

At the founding congress of the party, on 14 May 2023 in Košice, the delegates elected the party chairman (Mikuláš Dzurinda as the only candidate) and four vice-chairmen - Ľuboš Schwarzbacher, Martin Hubinski, Jana Ambrošová and Michal Hort.[8] Among the program priorities for the upcoming parliamentary election, they included strengthening economic growth, stopping the drastic increase in prices and inflation, reforming education and healthcare.

On 18 May 2023, the platform of the former Most–Híd party (under the name Most-Híd 2023) headed by László Sólymos announced cooperation with The Blues party after it announced its withdrawal from the Alliance project in response to the placement of György Gyimesi as a candidate.[9] On 25 May 2023, the party was officially renamed to Modrí, Most–Híd. After the parliamentary election in 2023, the party was renamed to The Blues – ES.

Election results

National Council

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2023-05-25 . Na svete je strana Modrí, Most – Híd. Dzurinda potvrdil dohodu so Sólymosom . 2023-10-10 . Pravda.sk . sk-SK.
  2. Web site: Register politických strán a politických hnutí . Ministerstvo vnútra SR .
  3. 2023-05-03 . Rezort vnútra zaregistroval novú stranu Modrí - Európske Slovensko . TASR .
  4. 2023-02-28 . Mikuláš Dzurinda sa nestane súčasťou Modrej koalície . Ringier Axel Springer Slovakia .
  5. Web site: Náš tím . MODRÍ – Európske Slovensko .
  6. Web site: 2023-03-20 . Pál Csáky tvrdí, že Mikuláš Dzurinda konzultoval svoj nový projekt aj s ním, ale nepridal sa k nemu . 2023-10-24 . Denník N . sk-SK.
  7. 2023-05-03 . Rezort vnútra zaregistroval novú stranu Modrí - Európske Slovensko . TASR .
  8. 2023-05-14 . Stranu Modrí povedie v predčasných voľbách Mikuláš Dzurinda . News and Media Holding . 1336-2674.
  9. 2023-05-18 . MKDA sa premenovala na Most-Híd 2023, bude spolupracovať s Modrými . TASR .