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.

ELECTIONS 1994 — National Council of the Slovak Republic

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.

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