Freedom and Solidarity

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Freedom and Solidarity
Sloboda a Solidarita
AbbreviationSaS
ChairBranislav Gröhling
Vice Chairs
See list
General ManagerRoman Foltin
Honorary ChairRichard Sulík
Founder
National Council[a]
10 / 150
European Parliament
1 / 14
Regional governors[3]
1 / 8
Regional deputies[b][4]
81 / 419
Mayors[c][5]
47 / 2,904
Local councillors[d][6]
619 / 20,462
Website
www.sas.sk Edit this at Wikidata
^ A: The party has been described as centrist by some and as right-wing by others.

Freedom and Solidarity (

Ordinary People and Independent Personalities, For the People, and We Are Family.[15] It is led by businessman Branislav Gröhling
.

SaS is a

Referendum 2009 to hold a referendum on reforming and cutting the cost of politics. SaS makes heavy use of the Internet,[19] such during the 2010 Slovak parliamentary election through Facebook and Twitter,[20] with the party having 68,000 fans on Facebook by the election.[21]

SaS narrowly failed to cross the 5% threshold at the

Speaker of the National Council. In the 2012 Slovak parliamentary election, the party suffered a major setback and lost half its 22 seats, and held four positions in the government of Slovakia before the election. In the 2019 European Parliament election in Slovakia, the party returned two Members of the European Parliament (MEPs). The party is member of the European Conservatives and Reformists Party (ECR party). Sulík left the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group (ALDE group) in the European Parliament to sit with the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR group) on 2 October 2014.[23][24]

History

Beginnings

Original party logo

Ministers of Finance, with whom he worked to simplify the tax system and implement Slovakia's 19% flat tax. He announced his intention to found Freedom and Solidarity on 10 October 2008, calling for a party dedicated to economic freedom and questioning the commitment of the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party (SDKÚ–DS) to that objective.[25] Analysts cited a lack of any liberal party in the country.[25] After securing the 10,000 signatures required to found a party, SaS made its public debut in February 2009,[26] ahead of the 2009 European Parliament election on 6 June. The party set publicly declared goals of entering the National Council of Slovakia in 2010 and entering government in 2014.[26]

At SaS's founding congress in Bratislava on 28 February 2009, Sulík was elected as Chairman and Jana Kiššová as General Manager. SaS selected economist Ján Oravec, to be its candidate for the 2009 European Parliament election in Slovakia.

election threshold; SDKÚ–DS accused SaS of unnecessarily furthering the fragmentation of the political right in Slovakia. In the 2009 Slovak regional elections, SaS won one seat in Bratislava.[citation needed
]

2009 referendum and 2010 parliamentary election

Richard Sulík founded SaS in 2009 to advance the ideas that he had proposed as counsellor to the Finance Ministry.

In late 2009, SaS promoted a referendum striving for major cuts to politicians' privileges. The demands included downsizing the Slovak parliament from 150 to 100 MPs, scrapping their immunity from criminal prosecution and limits to be placed on the public finances spent on government officials' cars. Furthermore, they demanded that the radio and television market should be further liberalized, abolishing concessionary fees, and public officials' right to comment and reply to media coverage should be removed from the press law.[28] In January 2010, SaS announced that by the end of 2009 it had managed to collect the 350,000 signatures needed in order to call a referendum. SaS forwarded the signatures to the Slovak president Ivan Gašparovič, requesting him to schedule the referendum for the date of the parliamentary election on 12 June 2010.[29]

In March 2010, people reported Sulík to the police for the content of the manifesto for the 2010 Slovak parliamentary election, arguing that the party's manifesto commitment to legalisation of cannabis constituted the criminal offence of "spread of addiction".[30] This was thrown out by the prosecutors, who refused to press charges.[31] The party's candidates were the most open about the state of their personal wealth.[32] In the election to the National Council, SaS received 12.1%, coming third, and won 22 seats. The party was the only one in opposition that took votes from Direction – Social Democracy (Smer–SD),[21] although it was estimated that more of its votes came from former SDKÚ–DS voters.[33]

The party entered into coalition negotiations with three centre-right parties, namely the

Ordinary People faction, alleged that he had been offered a bribe to destabilise the talks, prompting Sulík to make a formal complaint to the prosecutor.[34] On 29 June 2010, the President decided that the 2009 referendum petition met the requirements and the vote would go ahead on 18 September 2010.[35] Four of the six issues in the referendum were part of the agreed programme of the new coalition government.[36] In the 2010 Slovak politicla reform referendum, the turnout fell far below the 50% required.[citation needed
]

2012 and 2016 parliamentary elections

In February 2011, Igor Matovič was ejected from the caucus for voting for Smer–SD's proposed restrictions on

dual nationality.[37] Ordinary People filed to become an independent political party on 28 October 2011 and run as a separate list, along with two small conservative parties. In the 2012 Slovak parliamentary election, SaS received 5.9% of the vote, placing it the sixth-largest party in the National Council with 11 deputies.[citation needed] In the 2014 European Parliament election in Slovakia, SaS came in sixth place nationally, receiving 6.7% of the vote and had one member elected as a Member of the European Parliament.[38] In the 2016 Slovak parliamentary election, the party received 12.1% of the vote, coming in as the second-largest party in the National Council with 21 deputies, exceeding expectations and making it the most successful election in SaS history.[citation needed
]

2020 and 2022 parliamentary elections

In the European Parliament

Following the

Member of European Parliament for the start of the 8th European Parliament, he later defected to the ECR group on 2 October 2014.[23][24]

Ideology and platform

On the

socially conservative past coalition partner, the Christian Democratic Movement (KDH).[58] SaS is also notable for being the only party to be opposed to minimum wage increase, advocating instead for its abolition.[62]

In regards to

mandatory refugee relocation EU programme,[72] as well as further European integration at the expense of nation-states.[73] The party supports a liberal position on drug laws and same-sex marriage.[74] It rejects any tough measures to combat climate change.[74]

In the European Parliament, SaS is a member of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR group), which does not completely reject the idea of common Europe; party members consider the EU to be a good project, which requires reforms. As a response to Brexit, the party prepared a manifesto with several proposals to reform the European Union.[75]

Election results

National Council

Election Leader Votes % Rank Seats +/– Status
2010 Richard Sulík 307,287
12.2%
 3rd
22 / 150
 SDKÚ–SaS–KDH–Bridge
2012 150,266
5.9%
 6th
11 / 150
 Decrease 11 Opposition
2016 315,558
12.1%
 2nd
21 / 150
 Increase 10 Opposition
Including one Civic Conservative Party member elected within the party list.
2020 Richard Sulík 179,246
6.2%
 6th
13 / 150
 Decrease 8
OĽaNO–We Are Family–SaS–For the People

(2020–2022)
Opposition (2022–2023)
Including two Civic Conservative Party members elected within the party list.
2023 Richard Sulík 187,911
6.3%
 6th
11 / 150
 Decrease 2 Opposition

European Parliament

Election Leader Votes % Rank Seats +/– Group
2009 Ján Oravec 39,016
4.7%
 7th
0 / 13
2014 37,376
6.7%
 6th
1 / 13
 Increase 1 ALDE
(2014)
ECR
(2014–2019)
2019 Eugen Jurzyca 94,839
9.6%
 5th
2 / 14
 Increase 1 ECR
2024 Richard Sulík TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD

Presidential

Election Candidate First round Second round
Votes % Rank Votes % Rank
2009 Endorsed
Iveta Radičová 		713,735
38.1%
 2nd 988,808
44.5%
 2nd
2014 Endorsed
Radoslav Procházka 		403,548
21.3%
 3rd
2019 Endorsed
Zuzana Čaputová 		870,415
40.6%
 1st 1,056,582
58.4%
 1st
2024 Endorsed
Ivan Korčok 		958,393
42.5%
 1st 1,243,709
46.9%
 2nd

Party leaders

Chairman

Leader Year
1 Richard Sulík 2009–2024
2 Branislav Gröhling 2024–present

Honorary Chairman

Leader Year
1 Richard Sulík 2024–present

Elected representatives

2023–2027

After the

National Council
, including:

Notes

  1. ^ Parliamentary group of SaS has 11 members but only 9 members are members of the party. In the parliamentary group there is also 1 independent and 1 from Civic Conservative Party.
  2. ^ Also with coalitions
  3. ^ Also with coalitions
  4. ^ Also with coalitions

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