WWW: Political Movement Coexistence
POLITICAL REPRESENTATION
National Council of the Slovak Republic (NC SR) has one chamber with
150 members.Elections are held every 4 years, using proportional system
within 4 regions: Bratislava, Western Slovakia, Central Slovakia and Eastern
Slovakia. At least 5% of votes is needed for a party (7% for coalition
of 2-3 members, 10% for coalition of more than 3 members) to get to parliament.
Last elections were held in October 1994.
| N. | PARTY / MOVEMENT | VOTES | % | MP* |
| 1. | Movement for a Democratic Slovakia and APS*(MDS) | 1 005 488 | 34,96% | 61 |
| 2. | Party of the Democratic Left (PDL) and SDPS*, GPS*,MPE* | 299 496 | 10,41% | 18 |
| 3. | Hungarian Coalition* | 292 936 | 10,18% | 17 |
| 4. | Christian-Democratic Movement (CDM) | 289 987 | 10,08% | 17 |
| 5. | Democratic Union of Slovakia (DU) | 246 444 | 8,57% | 15 |
| 6. | Association of Workers of Slovakia (AWS) | 211 321 | 7,34% | 13 |
| 7. | Slovak National Party (SNP) | 155 359 | 5,4% | 9 |
*MP—Members of Parliament (National Council of the Slovak Republic)
*Hungarian Coalition—Political Movement Coexistence
(9 members)+ Hungarian Christian Democratic Movement (7 members) + Hungarian
Civic Party (1 member)
*APS—Agricultural Party of Slovakia
* SDPS-Social Democratic Party of Slovakia
*GPS—Green Party of Slovakia
*MPE—Movement of Peasants
Members of Parliament of Co-existence: Miklos DURAY (president), Arpad
DUKA-ZOLYOMI (vice-president), Zoltan BOROS, Edit BAUER, Jozsef KVARDA,
Zsolt KOMLOSY, Laszlo KOTELES, Istvan PASZTOR, Erno ROZSA
In the 1994 local elections, the Hungarian parties
archieved the following results:
Coexistence elected 131 mayors and 2215 local council
members. The corresponding numbers for the other parties were 56 and
1367 for the Hungarian Christian Democratic Party, and 62 and 812 for the
Hungarian Civic Party.