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Ordinary People and Independent Personalities
Obyčajní ľudia a nezávislé osobnosti
AbbreviationOĽaNO
LeaderIgor Matovič
Presidium
See list
Parliamentary leaderMichal Šipoš
FounderIgor Matovič
Founded28 October 2011; 12 years ago (2011-10-28)
Split fromFreedom and Solidarity
HeadquartersZámocká 6873/14, 81101 Bratislava
Membership (2020)Steady 55
Ideology
Political positionCentre[1][2] to centre-right[3][4]
National affiliationOĽANO–KÚ–NOVA–ZZ
European Parliament groupEuropean People's Party
Colours
  •   Green
  •   Grey
National Council
41 / 150
European Parliament
1 / 14
Regional Governors
2 / 8
Regional MPs
22 / 408
Mayors
54 / 2,904
Local MPs
752 / 20,646
Website
obycajniludia.sk

ORDINARY PEOPLE and Independent Personalities (OĽANO), NOVA, Christian Union (KÚ), CHANGE FROM BOTTOM (Slovak: OBYČAJNÍ ĽUDIA a nezávislé osobnosti (OĽANO), NOVA, Kresťanská únia (KÚ), ZMENA ZDOLA), is a conservative political party in Slovakia. The anti-establishment party founded in 2011 won the 2020 parliamentary election on anti-corruption ticket. After getting in charge, OĽaNO adopted a generally conservative outlook. The party is led by former prime minister Igor Matovič. The incumbent prime minister is a member of the party presidium, Eduard Heger, succeeding Matovič in 2021.

History

The four Ordinary People (OĽaNO) MPs were Igor Matovič, Erika Jurinová, Martin Fecko, Jozef Viskupič.[when?][5] OĽaNO sat in the National Council with the SaS and signed an agreement with the SaS that its members could not cross the floor to another group. In June and July 2010,[5] it was rumoured that OĽaNO would refuse to back the programme of the new centre-right coalition,[6] which included Freedom and Solidarity, and whose majority depended on Ordinary People.[7]

In August 2010, Matovič said that it was not the right time to become an independent party.[7] However, on 28 October 2011, Ordinary People filed a formal party registration, while Matovič announced that the party would compete in 2012 parliamentary election as a separate electoral list, of independents and representatives of the Civic Conservative Party and the Conservative Democrats.[8] In the 2012 election, the party came in third place overall, winning 8.55% of the vote and 16 seats.[9]

In the 2014 European elections, OĽaNO came in fourth place nationally, receiving 7.46% of the vote and electing 1 MEP.[10]

In the 2016 parliamentary election, Ordinary People ran in alliance with New Majority. They received 11.02% votes in Slovakia and consequently 19 MPs in the Slovak Parliament, 17 of whom came from Ordinary People.

In 2014–2019, the party was member of European Parliament group of European Conservatives and Reformists and in 2019 switched to the European People's Party group.

At the February 2020 parliamentary election, the Party received 25.0% of the vote, winning a 53 of 150 seats in the National Council. Party leader Igor Matovič was appointed as the Prime Minister designate.

Ideology and platform

Initially a big tent populist party eventually adopted a generally conservative outlook, while maintaining its anti-corruption and anti-elitist rhetoric.[1][2] Although conservative and fundamentalist voices were always present in OĽaNO, their influence became significant after the 2020 parliamentary election.[3][4] Before the last election party leader Igor Matovič announced that his movement would not join a coalition government that wanted to establish civil unions or loosen drug policy.[5] At the same time, the fundamentalist Christian Union merged into the party, regularly presenting bills restricting abortions with major party support.[6][7] As prime minister and later deputy prime minister, Matovič began to frequently verbally attack liberal and progressive media, organizations and individuals.[8][9][10]

OĽaNO lacks any internal democratic structures, and Matovič decides on the composition of the electoral list, admission of members, and political nominations and he is irremovable.[11][12][13] The use of public subsidies for the movement is considered non- transparent and similar to a private company rather than a political entity.[14] The party had 45 members in 2019.[15]

Election results

National Council

Election Leader Votes % Rank Seats +/– Status
2012 Igor Matovič 218,537
8.55%
  3rd 
16 / 150
 Opposition
2016 287,611
11.03%
  3rd 
17 / 150
 Increase 1 Opposition
As a part of the OĽaNO–NOVA list, which won 19 seats in total.
2020 Igor Matovič 721,166
25.03%
  1st 
45 / 150
 Increase 28 OĽaNO–SR–SaS–ZĽ
As a part of the OĽaNO–KÚ–NOVA–ZZ list, which won 53 seats in total.

European Parliament

Election Leader Votes % Rank Seats +/– Group
2014 Jozef Viskupič 41,829
7.46%
  4th 
1 / 13
 ECR
2019 Michal Šipoš 51,834
5.26%
  6th 
1 / 14
 Steady EPP

Presidential

Election Candidate 1st round 2nd round
Votes % Rank Votes % Rank
2014 Helena Mezenská 45,180
2.38%
  7th 
2019 Endorsed
Zuzana Čaputová 		870,415
40.57%
  1st  1,056,582
58.41%
  1st 

Notes

References

  1. ^ Varshalomidze, Tamila. "Far-right poised to make gains in Slovakia's key polls". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 2022-08-08.
  2. ^ Muller, Robert (2020-02-14). "Slovak opposition well-placed in poll to unseat long-ruling Smer". Reuters. Retrieved 2022-08-08.
  3. ^ "Slovakia election: seismic shift as public anger ousts dominant Smer-SD party". The Guardian. 2020-03-01. Retrieved 2022-08-08.
  4. ^ "Slovakia election: Double murder haunts voters". BBC News. 2020-02-29. Retrieved 2022-08-08.
  5. ^ a b Vilikovská, Zuzana (15 June 2010). "SaS chairman speaks about its new MPs from the Ordinary People civic association". The Slovak Spectator.
  6. ^ Vilikovská, Zuzana (5 August 2010). "'Ordinary Man' MP Matovič accuses Fico of lying". The Slovak Spectator.
  7. ^ a b Vilikovská, Zuzana (3 August 2010). "SaS: Ordinary People faction will give up their parliamentary seats if they leave SaS caucus". The Slovak Spectator.
  8. ^ Kft., Webra International (28 October 2011). "The Visegrad Group: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia - Ordinary People files request to be registered as political party in Slovakia". www.visegradgroup.eu.
  9. ^ Slovakia turns left, The Economist (11 March 2012)
  10. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-05-28. Retrieved 2014-05-28.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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