Union of the Workers of Slovakia
The Union of the Workers of Slovakia (Slovak: Združenie robotníkov Slovenska, ZRS) is a radical-left party in Slovakia.
History
The ZRS split from the Party of the Democratic Left in 1994. In the Slovak parliamentary election in 1994 the party gained 7,34% of the votes an 13 seats in parliament. Although calling themselves "agrarian-left" the deputies entered the coalition of the gaullistic-Christian democratic 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. Until today the ZRS writes on its homepage that it prevented privatizations in the gas industry, energy sector, telecommunications, banks and insurances.[1]
On the international level the ZRS has no party linkages.[2]
In the Slovak parliamentary election, 1998 the ZRS got 1,30% of the votes. In 2002 the ZRS received 0,54% and to the last Slovak parliamentary election in 2006 they got 0,29%. To the European Parliament elections in 2004 and 2009 the ZRS did not run. In the Slovak parliamentary election 2010 the party received 0.24% of the votes - a poll estimated a possible range of 0,6% of the votes.[3]
President of the ZRS is Ján Ľupták.[4]
References
- ↑ Homepage of the ZRS
- ↑ 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, Nr. 7 (Nov. 1999), S. 1221-1244.
- ↑ Poll of Focus Research.
- ↑ http://www.zrs-ur.sk/predstav.htm
External links
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