Slovaks_Forward

Slovaks Forward

Slovaks Forward

Political party in Serbia


Slovaks Forward (Slovak: Slováci vpred, abbr. SV; Serbian Cyrillic: Словаци напред, romanized: Slovaci napred, abbr. SN) is a political party in Serbia, representing the Slovak national minority in Vojvodina. Its leader is Pavel Surovi. The party is aligned with Aleksandar Vučić and the Serbian Progressive Party.[1]

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Slovak National Council

Slovaks Forward won nine out of twenty-nine seats in Serbia's 2014 Slovak National Council election and eight seats in the 2018 election.[2][3][4] Surovi was chosen as council vice-president after the 2018 election, although he was removed from this role in February 2021.[5]

Vojvodina provincial politics

Slovaks Forward was registered as a political party in late 2015.[6] It joined the Serbian Progressive Party's electoral alliance for the 2016 Vojvodina provincial election; Surovi was included on the Progressive Party's electoral list in the thirty-third position and was elected when the list won a majority victory with sixty-three out of 120 mandates.[7] He was promoted to the fifteenth position on the Progressive list in the 2020 provincial election and was re-elected when the list won an increased majority with seventy-six mandates.[8] As of 2021, Surovi is the sole representative of his party in the assembly. He sits in caucus with the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić – For Our Children parliamentary group.[9]

Surovi was confirmed for a new term as party leader in December 2019.[10]


References

  1. "Stranka "Slovaci napred" podržava Vučića". Radio Television of Vojvodina (in Serbian). 30 March 2022. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
  2. ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (СЛОВАЦИ НАПРЕД! - ПАВЕЛ СУРОВИ) and РЕЗУЛТАТИ ИЗБОРА (Извештај о укупним резултатима избора за чланове Националног савета словачке националне мањине), Избори за чланове националног савета словачке националне мањине, одржани 26. октобра 2014. године (непосредни избори), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 8 February 2021.
  3. "Serbia's registered political party count reaches 107", B92, 5 January 2016, accessed 8 February 2021.
  4. Pavel Surový, Assembly of Vojvodina, accessed 8 February 2021.

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