List of political parties in Slovenia

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This article lists political parties in Slovenia. Slovenia has a multi-party system with numerous political parties, in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments.

Current parties in parliament

Name			Ideology	Leader	MPs	MEPs
	Positive Slovenia Pozitivna Slovenija	PS	Liberalism	Zoran Janković	28	0
	Slovenian Democratic Party Slovenska demokratska stranka	SDS	Liberal conservatism	Janez Janša	26	3
	Social Democrats Socialni demokrati	SD	Social democracy	Borut Pahor	10	2
	Gregor Virant's Civic List Državljanska lista Gregorja Viranta	LGV	Classical liberalism	Gregor Virant	8	0
	Slovenian People's Party Slovenska ljudska stranka	SLS	Christian democracy Centrism	Radovan Žerjav	6	0
	Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia Demokratična stranka upokojencev Slovenije	DeSUS	Pensioners' party, Populism	Karl Erjavec	6	0
	New Slovenia – Christian People's Party Nova Slovenija – krščanska ljudska stranka	NSi	Christian democracy	Ljudmila Novak	4	1

Non parliament parties

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Took part in the 2011 elections:

• Slovenian National Party (Slovenska nacionalna stranka, SNS)
• Liberal Democracy of Slovenia (Liberalna demokracija Slovenije, LDS)
• Party for Sustainable Development of Slovenia (Stranka za trajnostni razvoj Slovenije, TRS)
• Youth Party - European Greens (Stranka mladih - Zeleni Evrope, SMS-Zeleni)
• Democratic Labour Party (Slovenia) (Demokratična stranka dela, DSD)
• Zares
• Greens of Slovenia (Zeleni Slovenije)
• Movement for Slovenia (Gibanje za Slovenijo)
• Slovenian Party of Equal Opportunities (Stranka enakih možnosti Slovenije, SEM-Si)
• Forward Slovenia (Naprej Slovenija, NPS)
• Party of the Slovenian Nation (Stranka slovenskega naroda, SSN)
• Humana Party (Stranka Humana)
• Akacija

Didn't take part in the 2011 elections:

• Union for the Will of the People (Zveza za voljo ljudstva, ZZVL)
• Slovenian Pirate Party (Piratska stranka Slovenije, PSS)
• Slovenia is Ours (Slovenija je naša, SJN)
• Christian Democratic Party (Krščansko-demokratska stranka, KDS)
• Christian Socialist Party (Krščanski socialisti Slovenije, KSS)
• Linden Tree (Lipa)

Former parties

• Active Slovenia (Aktivna Slovenija)
• League of Communists of Slovenia (Zveza komunistov Slovenije), known also as the Communist Party of Slovenia (Komunistična partija Slovenije)

See also

• Politics of Slovenia
• List of political parties by country to browse parties by country

External links

• (Slovene) Iskalnik političnih strank [Political Party Search Engine]. Search term in the field "Ime stranke": *. Ministry of Interior Affairs, Republic of Slovenia. Accessed 22 January 2012.
• (Slovene) Seznam davčnih zavezancev [A List of Taxpayers]. Search term: 94.920 (main activity: political organisation). Računovodja.com. Accessed 22 January 2012.