Aliancia nového občana

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Aliancia nového občana
Party leader Pavol Rusko
founding 2001
renaming 2011
(renamed: Strana Slobodné Slovo - Nory Mojsejovej)
Colours) Blue yellow
Parliament seats 15 of 150 (2002)
0 (2006)
International connections Liberal International
European party ELDR

Aliancia nového občana (short ANO ; German "Alliance of the New Citizen") was a political party in Slovakia that existed from 2001 to 2011. The party abbreviation was a play on words with áno , the Slovak word for "yes". The founder and chairman was the media entrepreneur Pavol Rusko . ANO positioned itself as a liberal party, belonged to the Liberal International and the European Liberal, Democratic Reform Party (ELDR). From 2002 to 2005 she was a coalition partner in the center-right government of Mikuláš Dzurindas .

From a legal point of view, the party existed after 2011 under the name Strana Slobodné Slovo - Nory Mojsejovej (SSS-NM; "Party Free Word from Nora Mojsejová") and since 2014 as IDEA , but in terms of personnel there is no continuity with the original ANO.

Foundation and orientation

The party was founded by the former owner of the private television station Markíza Pavol Rusko . Of all the Slovak media, Markíza had the greatest influence on public opinion. ANO enjoyed the support of the media tending towards its party president (private television Markíza, radio OKEY and the small national newspaper Národná obroda ). The character of the party leadership could be compared to the leadership of a private company. From the beginning, the ANO was mainly financed from the sources of its chairman, which at the same time consolidated his leadership position within the party. On this point, ANO was similar to the Forza Italia party of Italian media entrepreneur Silvio Berlusconi .

In ideological terms, ANO has always presented itself as a liberal party. According to the political scientist Klaus Bachmann , however, it resembled a right-wing populist party with an economically liberal tendency. She belonged to the Liberal International and the European Liberal Democratic Reform Party (ELDR).

Elections and participation in government

In the parliamentary elections in 2002 , the ANO received 8% of the votes and took 15 of the 150 seats in the National Council. After the election, ANO belonged to the government of Mikuláš Dzurinda as part of a center-right coalition with SDKÚ , SMK and KDH . In this first Robert Nemcsics took over the office of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economics. In September 2003 he was replaced in both positions by the ANO founder Pavol Rusko. In addition, ANO provided the ministers for culture ( Rudolf Chmel ) and health ( Rudolf Zajac ).

After Slovakia joined the EU on January 1, 2004, ANO was initially represented by one member in the European Parliament: Jozef Heriban , who joined the Liberal Group . In the first regular European elections in Slovakia in May 2004 , however, ANO missed the re-entry with 4.7% of the vote.

After the corruption affair of party leader Rusko, ANO was expelled from the government in August 2005. However, ten MPs from the party decided to continue to support Dzurinda's government and were again expelled from the party. The majority of the ANO members left the party after this corruption affair. The electorate no longer trusts the party either, and in the 2006 elections it left parliament with just 1.4% of the vote. For national elections in 2010 ANO did not occur to.

Successor parties

In November 2011 the entrepreneur Nora Mojsejová from Košice , known from the reality show Mojsejovci , took over the party after an agreement with Pavol Rusko and named it in Strana Slobodné Slovo - Nory Mojsejovej (SSS-NM; "Party Free Word from Nora Mojsejová" ). This saved Mojsejová from collecting 10,000 signatures, which would be required to found a new party. In the parliamentary elections on March 10, 2012 , the party received only 1.2% of the vote and was not represented in parliament. In 2013 Miroslav Mišánik took over the party leadership and renamed the party again in OBČANIA ("Citizen"). Since it was renamed again in 2014, the party has been called IDEA . The party leader has been Miroslav Leňo since then.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Radoslav Štefančík: Christian-Democratic Parties in Slovakia. 2008, p. 32.
  2. ^ Klaus Bachmann: Populist parties and movements in Eastern Europe. In: Frank Decker: Populism. Danger to Democracy or Useful Corrective? VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2006, p. 216–232, p. 228.
  3. ↑ a b Radoslav Štefančík: Christian-Democratic Parties in Slovakia. 2008, p. 33.
  4. ↑ Mojsejová nemusí zbierať podpisy so stranou jej pomohol Pavol Rusko , Pravda, accessed 18 February 2012