Združenie robotníkov Slovenska

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Združenie robotníkov Slovenska
Workers' Association of Slovakia
Logo of the ZRS
Party leader Ján Ľupták
founding April 26, 1994
resolution November 28, 2017
Alignment Left
Colours) White, blue, red (Slovak tricolor )
Website www.zrs.zvolen.szm.com

Združenie robotníkov Slovenska (German: Workers 'Association of Slovakia or Workers' Association of Slovakia , ZRS for short ) was a left-wing party in Slovakia that was part of the government from 1994 to 1998.

classification

Kai-Olaf Lang (2005) describes the ZRS as “the clearest example of a left-wing populist party” . Radoslav Štefančík (2008) and Grigorij Mesežníkov (2008) also see the party as “left-wing populist”. Hannes Hofbauer and David X. Noack (2013) describe the party as a “left-wing radical force”, while Rüdiger Kipke (2002) classifies it as a “left-wing, socialist party”.

history

In 1994 the ZRS split from the party of the democratic left (Strana Demokratieickej ľavice, SDĽ ). The SDL -Abgeordnete Ján Ľupták had the SDL leave, as they had participated in an anti-Meciar government. In the parliamentary elections in Slovakia in 1994 she won 7.34% of the votes cast and occupied 13 seats in the Slovak parliament. The ZRS was called the anti-reform party. Although calling itself "agrarian left" , the ZRS entered a coalition government with the conservative Christian Democratic Movement for a Democratic Slovakia and the nationalist Slovak National Party under Prime Minister Vladimír Mečiar . The ZRS occupied the privatization ministry in order to be able to keep key industries state when opening up to the west. To this day, the ZRS boasts on its homepage that it prevented the following privatizations: privatizations in the gas industry, the energy industry, telecommunications, in the banking and insurance sectors. In 1997, the ZRS caused an uproar in the government when it voted with the opposition against the privatization of the state TV broadcaster, which was promoted by coalition partner HZDS . Additional money was invested in education, health and culture.

In the following parliamentary election in 1998, the ZRS received only 1.30% of the vote. This was followed by 0.54% in 2002 and 0.29% in the 2006 parliamentary election. The ZRS did not run for the European elections in 2004 and 2009 .

Ján Ľupták was the president of the ZRS throughout.

At the international level, the ZRS was only briefly networked with the Lambertian (Trotskyist) international liaison office for a workers' international . Later there were no more international connections.

In 2001, the Labor Party (Robotnícka Strana, ROSA) split from the ZRS and received 0.30% in the 2002 parliamentary elections in Slovakia .

According to surveys in May 2010, the ZRS had a potential of 0.6% of the vote. The party was admitted to the 2010 parliamentary elections in Slovakia . For this election, the ZRS then achieved 0.24% of the votes with 6,196 votes.

For a long time the ZRS refused to join the CP of Slovakia (KSS) or the left-wing SMER - sociálna demokracia . The Ľavicový blok (Left Block) party joined SMER in 2008 . However, the ZRS and the more social democratic Strana Občianskej Solidarity (party of civil solidarity) resisted. Nevertheless, the ZRS , the KSS and the SOS intended to cooperate with each other.

The ZRS did not stand alone in the parliamentary elections in Slovakia in 2012 and put parliamentary candidates on the list of the CP of Slovakia (KSS) . The two parties aimed at the same time to merge.

The party disbanded in November 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kai-Olaf Lang: Populism in East Central Europe: Forms of Manifestation, Peculiarities and Opportunity Structures. In: Rudolf von Thadden, Anna Hofmann: Populism in Europe - Crisis or Democracy? Wallstein Verlag, 2005, pp. 137–154, here p. 144.
  2. ^ Radoslav Štefančík: Christian-Democratic Parties in Slovakia. University of Saints Cyril and Method in Trnava, Trnava 2008, ISBN 978-80-8105-016-9 , p. 80.
  3. ↑ Grigorij Meseznikov: conditions for success of new parties in Slovakia. In: Hans-Joachim Veen, Ulrich Mählert, Franz-Josef Schlichting (eds.): Parties in young democracies. Between fragility and stabilization in East Central Europe. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20180-7 , pp. 113–126, here p. 122.
  4. ^ Hannes Hofbauer, David X. Noack: Slovakia: The arduous way to the west. Promedia Verlag, Vienna 2013, p. 133.
  5. ^ Rüdiger Kipke: The political systems of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. An introduction. Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden 2002, ISBN 978-3-531-13525-0 , p. 124.
  6. ↑ CDilla Machos: organizational structures left parliamentary parties in Central Europe , Friedrich Ebert Foundation of 2002.
  7. ↑ Dr. Trevor Waters: SLOVAK PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS 25/26 SEPTEMBER 1998 , Conflict Studies Research Center, Num.G68, 1998, p. 6.
  8. ↑ a b Homepage of the ZRS ( Memento from March 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ ZRS ( Memento from March 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. ^ Marxists Internet Archive: Leftist Parties of the World - Slovak Republic , accessed January 22, 2012.
  12. ^ Poll of Focus Research. (PDF file; 84 kB)
  13. ↑ Hubert Gehring and Agáta Pešková, Election Handbook Slovakia 2010, Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Bratislava 2010 (PDF)
  14. ^ Heiko Kosel: The Communist Party of Slovakia (KSS) , in: Birgit Daibler / Cornelia Hildebrandt (ed.): Die Linke in Europa - Analyzes of Left Parties and Party Alliances , Rosa Luxemburg Foundation , Berlin 2009. Digital copy (PDF file ; 1.7 MB)
  15. ↑ Hannes Hofbauer / David X. Noack: Slovakia: The laborious way to the west , Vienna 2012, p. 139. ISBN 978-3-85371-349-5