Union of the Workers of Slovakia explained

Country:Slovakia
Union of the Workers of Slovakia
Native Name:Združenie robotníkov Slovenska
Abbreviation:ZRS
Membership Year:2008
Membership: 32[1]
Split:Party of the Democratic Left
Position:Far-left[2] [3]
Colours: Red
Headquarters:Nám. Š. Moysesa 31/3, Banská Bystrica

The Union of the Workers of Slovakia (Slovak: Združenie robotníkov Slovenska, ZRS) was a radical-left party in Slovakia.

History

The Union of the Workers of Slovakia (Združenie robotníkov Slovenska, ZRS) split from the Party of the Democratic Left (SDL) in 1994. In the 1994 parliamentary election the party gained 7.34% of the votes and 13 seats. Although calling themselves "agrarian-left" the deputies entered the coalition of the national-conservative People's Party – Movement for a Democratic Slovakia and the nationalist Slovak National Party. The ZRS occupied the Ministry of Privatization to ensure that key industries remained under state control. The ZRS stated on its webpage that it had prevented privatizations in the gas industry, energy sector, telecommunications, banks and insurance.[4]

The ZRS had no international affiliations[5] and did not run in the 2004 or 2009 European Parliament elections.

In the 1998 parliamentary election the ZRS received 1.30% of the votes. The ZRS received 0.54% of the vote in 2002 and 0.29% in 2006. In the 2010 parliamentary election the party received 0.24% of the votes – below the poll's error margin of 0.6%.[6]

The president of the ZRS was .[7]

The party dissolved in November 2017.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: VEC: Audit politickej strany (SUBJECT: Audit of a political party) . sk.
  2. Koudelka. Zdeněk. Současná Slovenská politika. Politologický Časopis. 14 February 1997. 199. 2 October 2018.
  3. Book: Muller . Thomas C. . Overstreet . William R. . Isacoff . Judith F. . Lansford . Tom . Political Handbook of the World 2011 . 2011 . 10.4135/9781608717576. 9781608717347 .
  4. http://www.zrs-ur.sk/ Homepage of the ZRS
  5. Geoffrey Pridham: Complying with the European Union's Democratic Conditionality: Transnational Party Linkages and Regime Change in Slovakia, 1993–1998, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 51, No. 7 (Nov. 1999), pp. 1221–1244.
  6. http://www.focus-research.sk/files/119_Preferencie%20politickych%20stran_%20maj2010.pdf Poll of Focus Research.
  7. Web site: Zdru?Enie Robotn?Kov Slovenska - ?Stredn? Rada . 6 May 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100326165349/http://zrs-ur.sk/predstav.htm . 26 March 2010 .