Slovenian National Party

The party itself never calls itself left or right, although its leader Zmago Jlinčić Plemenity in 2000 in an interview with Mladina magazine called his party left ^[5] . Estimates of the position of the party vary: there are experts who call it the party of left-wing nationalists ^[1] , and there are those who call it the right-wing or ultra-right ^{[6] [7]} . However, according to political analysts at the University of Ljubljana , the party is closer to left ideology, although it combines the features of left and right parties ^[8] .

Among the proposals of the parties are the following:

• separation of the church from the state (there are pronounced anti-clerical and laicistic features) ^[9]
• the prohibition of the LGBT movement and the loss of rights of its members ^[10] ;
• the fight against the privatization of state property ^[11] and the abolition of property tax ^[11] ;
• raising the minimum wage ^[12] ;
• change of the flag and coat of arms of Slovenia as symbols reminiscent of Slovenian collaborationism in World War II and not related to the Slovenian people and Slovenian true history ^[13] ;
• the abolition of life-long appointment of judges in state courts and the establishment of a one-time tenure of 8 years ^[14] ;
• secession from the European Union and the NATO bloc ^{[2] [3]} .

The leadership and party members were repeatedly accused of manifestations of chauvinism, xenophobia and racism, especially against Slovenian gypsies ^{[1] [9]} : in the early 1990s, the party opposed the acceptance of refugees from neighboring Yugoslav countries ^[15] . Over time, the manifestations of gypsy phobia have decreased, but now Croatia has become a constant target of persecution by the Slovenes ^[4] : party leader Zmago Jlinčić demands the transfer of the villages of Buzhini, Mlini, Shkodelini and Shkrile (to the Piranj community) to Slovenia so that their residents have the right to participate in elections in Slovenia ^[16] . The party stands for the active development of relations with Russia and Serbia (it does not recognize the independence of Kosovo) ^[17] and for helping Slovenian communities abroad ^[18] .

The party was founded on March 17, 1991 by Zmago Jelincic, who is the permanent leader of the party ^{[19] [9]} . The emblem of the party is the map of Peter Kozler with the image of United Slovenia ^[9] . The first split in the party took place in 1993, when a group of politicians who supported the collaborationist Slovenian housekeeping left the party, which ran counter to the convictions of Zmago Jlinčić, who considered Yugoslav partisans to be the heroes of Slovenia ^[9] . In 2008, several other deputies of the Slovenian Parliament, members of the Slovenian National Party, organized their own party, Lipa ^[20] . But in general, these splits did not affect the popularity of the party.

Parliamentary

For the first time, the party participated in the elections in 1992 , gaining 10.2% of the vote and gaining 12 out of 90 possible seats in parliament ^[21] . After 4 years in the 1996 election, the party failed, gaining only 3.22% and limited to 4 seats ^[22] . In 2000, this result was already 4.38% ^[23] , and in 2004 it was already 6.27% and 6 places ^[24] . In the 2008 election, the party gained 5.4% of the vote and retained 5 seats ^[25] , but three years later in 2011 it gained only 1.8% of the vote and left the Parliament without passing the 4% barrier ^[26] . The party did not succeed in returning in 2014: in the elections, it gained 2.21% of the vote ^[27] . In the elections in 2018, she won 4 seats.

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Presidential

In the presidential election, the party ran exclusively for Jelincic. He participated in the elections in 2002 and 2007 : in 2002, he got 8.49% of the vote and 3rd place in the end ^[28] , in 2007 - 19.16% of the vote, but 4th place in the end ^{[29 ]} .

European Parliamentary

The party participated in the elections to the European Parliament in 2004 ^[30] , 2009 ^[31] and 2014 , but it never crossed the necessary threshold ^[32] .

Electorate

The predominant electorate of the party is the youth, as well as the population of Slovenia along the borders with Italy and Austria ^[15] .

• Official website (Slovenian.)