Slovenian National Party

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The Slovenian National Party (Template:Langx, SNS) is a nationalist[1] political party in Slovenia led by Zmago Jelinčič Plemeniti. The party is known for its Euroscepticism and opposes Slovenia's membership in NATO.[2][3] It also engages in what many consider to be historical negationism of events in Slovenia during World War II.[4]

History

The party was founded on 17 March 1991 by Zmago Jelinčič Plemeniti, who remains the party's leader.[5][6] The traditional 19th-century Kozler map of United Slovenia is one of the official party symbols.[5]

In 1993, dissenting factions broke from the party and formed the Slovenian National Right and the National Party of Labor. Many of the dissenting members were supporters of Slovene Home Guard and objected to Jelinčič's support of the Slovene Partisans.[5] Another split occurred in 2008, when several Slovenian National Party MPs left the party and formed the party Lipa.[7] These splits did not seriously affect the party's structure, even though the ideologies of both SNS MPs and the party's membership tend to sometimes differ from Jelinčič's stands.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

In the second democratic elections in Slovenia on 6 and 10 December 1992, the SNS received 10.2% of the vote and 12 of the 90 seats in parliament.[8] On 10 November 1996, their share of the vote declined to 3.22% and the party won 4 seats.[9] On 15 October 2000, the party's vote share increased to 4.38% and its seats in parliament remained steady at 4.[10] In the 2002 presidential election, SNS leader Zmago Jelinčič Plemeniti received 8.49% of the vote, placing third.[11] On 3 October 2004, the party's share of the vote increased to 6.27% and the party won 6 seats in parliament.[12] The party's share of the vote increased to 4.0% in the 2014 European parliamentary election compared to the previous European elections, but it did not win any seats.[13]

In the 2007 presidential election, Jelinčič increased his share to 19.16% of the vote, but placed fourth.[14] In Slovenian legislative elections on 21 September 2008, the party's share of the vote declined to 5.4% and its seats in parliament dropped to 5.[15] The party's vote share dropped to 2.9% in the 2009 European parliamentary election.[16] In the Slovenian parliamentary election on 4 December 2011, the party received 1.80% of votes and lost its representation in parliament as it did not reach the parliamentary threshold of 4%.[17] In the Slovenian parliamentary election on 13 July 2014, the party received 2.21% of votes, but did not win any parliamentary seats.[18] It receives support from various strands of society and has traditionally done well among young voters and residents of the regions near the Italian and Austrian borders.[19]

On 9 March 2016, Jelinčič and Vojislav Šešelj, president of the Serbian Radical Party, signed an agreement to bring their parties closer in terms of partnership and political alliance.[20]

In July 2020, the party reached a cooperation agreement with the 14th Government of Slovenia.[21]

Ideology and platform

The party's ideology has been strongly anti-clerical and has advocated a firm laicist position.[5] The party is also opposed to LGBT rights.[22] The party opposes the privatisation of state-owned enterprises.[23] The party opposes introducing a property tax[23] and supports an increase in the minimum wage.[24] The party has called for a change of the national flag and the coat of arms, feeling that they utilize symbols used by certain World War II paramilitary groups and lack a distinctly Slovenian historical character.[25] It shows sympathy for the Slovenian resistance to fascism and for the former Yugoslav communist regime of Tito.[4] The party supports replacing judges' lifetime mandate with an eight-year term.[26] The party is opposed to Slovenia's membership the European Union and NATO.[2][3]

Its leaders have been accused of chauvinist and even racist attitudes towards certain minorities, particularly Slovenia's Romani population.[1][5] In the early 1990s, the party campaigned against allowing refugees from former Yugoslav republics into the country.[19] The party has since moderated its rhetoric,[5] although its leaders continue to voice strongly anti-Croat positions.[4] Among other things, Jelinčič has proposed that four disputed villages; Bužini, Mlini, Škodelini and Škrile, be placed within the municipality of Piran to participate in Slovenian elections.[27] He also advocates improving relations with Serbia and has opposed the independence of Kosovo.[28] The SNS frequently demands better treatment of Slovene minorities in neighboring countries.[29]

Although the party usually refuses to position itself within a left–right political spectrum, its president Zmago Jelinčič Plemeniti defined himself as leftist in a 2000 interview for the magazine Mladina.[30] However, the descriptions others have given the party range from left-wing[1][31] to far-right,[32][33] including right-wing.[34][35][36] According to researchers at the University of Ljubljana, the SNS combines elements of right-wing and left-wing ideology and is not strictly a left-wing, nor a right-wing party, but nevertheless leans closer to the left.[31] The party has only participated in one governing coalition, with the conservative Slovenian Democratic Party during the third Janša premiership of 2020-2022. Over the years, the SNS has supported a combination of typically leftist economic policies (such as opposing privatization of key national enterprises) and right-wing social views, explaining the wide variance in its placement within the political spectrum.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

Parliamentary representation

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Electoral results

Presidential

Election Candidate 1st round 2nd round Result
Votes % Votes %
2002 Zmago Jelinčič Plemeniti 97,178 8.49 Lost
2007 188,951 19.16 Lost

National Assembly

Election Leader Votes % Seats +/– Government
1992 Zmago Jelinčič Plemeniti 119,091 10.02 (#4) Template:Composition bar New Opposition
1996 34,422 3.22 (#7) Template:Composition bar Decrease 8 Opposition
2000 47,214 4.39 (#7) Template:Composition bar Steady 0 Opposition
2004 60,750 6.27 (#6) Template:Composition bar Increase 2 Opposition
2008 56,832 5.40 (#5) Template:Composition bar Decrease 1 Opposition
2011 19,786 1.80 (#8) Template:Composition bar Decrease 5 Extra-parliamentary
2014 19,218 2.20 (#10) Template:Composition bar Steady 0 Extra-parliamentary
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2022 17,736 1.49 (#14) Template:Composition bar Decrease 4 Extra-parliamentary

European Parliament

Election Votes % Seats +/– EP Group
2004 21,883 5.0 (#6) Template:Composition bar New _
2009 13,227 2.8 (#8) Template:Composition bar Steady
2014 16,210 4.0 (#9) Template:Composition bar Steady
2019 18,926 4.0 (#8) Template:Composition bar Steady

References

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