Homeland (political party)

Homeland (Slovak: Vlasť) was a non-parliamentary political party in Slovakia.

Homeland VLASŤ
Leader	Štefan Harabin
Chairperson	Anna Žatková
Founded	28 November 2011; 11 years ago (2011-11-28) (DNES) 24 June 2019; 4 years ago (2019-06-24) (VLASŤ)
Dissolved	1 April 2021^[1]
Headquarters	Vajnorská 1417/136, Bratislava-Nové Mesto
Membership (2019)	832^[2]
Ideology	National conservatism Slovak nationalism Right-wing populism Anti-immigration Euroscepticism
Political position	Right-wing to far-right
Colours	Blue and red
Website
https://stranavlast.sk
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Party's names

• (2011-11-28) (2011-12-13)28 November – 13 December 2011: TODAY (Slovak: DNES)
• (2011-12-13) (2013-09-27)13 December 2011 – 27 September 2013: Civic Party TODAY (Slovak: Občianska strana DNES, DNES)
• (2013-09-27) (2019-06-24)27 September 2013 – 24 June 2019: Civic Left Party (Slovak: Strana občianskej ľavice, SOĽ)
• From 24 June 2019 (2019-06-24): HOMELAND (Slovak: VLASŤ)

History

As a juridical person, it was registered by the Ministry of the Interior of the Slovak Republic on 28 November 2011, under no. OVVS 3-2011 / 029917 and obtained the identification number of the organization 42257344. During its existence, there were three amendments to the Articles of Association (13 December 2011, 27 September 2013, 24 June 2019) and four changes to the statutory body (8 December 2011, 11 July 2012, August 11, 2017, October 3, 2019), with the general manager of the party, Ing. Anna Žatková.^[3]

At a press conference on October 1, 2019, former Minister of Justice (nominee of Mečiar's People's Party – Movement for a Democratic Slovakia) and Supreme Court Judge Štefan Harabin, a failed candidate in the 2019 presidential election, announced that he would run in the 2020 parliamentary election as leader of the political party Homeland.^{[4][5][6][7][8]} Possible cooperation was with the^[9] Slovak National Party, Smer-SD and probably also We Are Family.^[10]

Some members or candidates of the party

• Štefan Harabin
• Roman Michelko
• Anna Žatkova
• Igor Čombor

Election results

The party did not participate in the parliamentary elections held during its operation (2012, 2016; EP 2019), with the exception of the 2014 European Parliament election. The party received 1,311 votes (0.23%) and no mandate.^[11]

The only regional elections this party participated in were the 2017 regional elections. The party ran 15 candidates in Prešov Region, of which none were elected.^[12]

National Council

Election	Leader	Performance					Rank	Government
		Votes	%	± pp	Seats	+/–
2020	Štefan Harabin	84,507	2.93%	New	0 / 150	New	12th	Extra-parliamentary (OĽaNO-SR-SaS-ZĽ)
								Extra-parliamentary (OĽaNO-SR-ZĽ)

European Parliament

Election	Party leader	EU Party	Performance					Rank	EP Group
			Votes	%	± pp	Seats	+/–
2014	Vladislav Borík	None	1,311	0.23%	New	0 / 14	New	26th	–
2019	Did not contest

President

Election	Candidate	First round		Second round		Result
		Votes	%	Votes	%
2019	Endorsed Štefan Harabin	307,823	14.35%			Lost  N

See also

• List of political parties in Slovakia

References

1. "Register of Political Parties and Political Movements".
2. https://www.minv.sk/swift_data/source/statna_komisia_pre_volby/30_annual_report/ar2019/VS19_VLAST.pdf^{[bare URL PDF]}
3. Výpis z registra politických strán a politických hnutí [online]. Bratislava : Ministerstvo vnútra Slovenskej republiky, [s. a.] [cit. 2019-11-02]. Dostupné online.
4. KRAUS KRBATOVÁ, Lucia. Harabin vstupuje do politického boja. Ohlásil stranu Vlasť [online]. In SME, 2019-10-01 [cit. 2019-11-02]. Dostupné online.
5. KERN, Miro. Harabin zakladá stranu Vlasť a ide do volieb (+video) [online]. In Denník N, 2019-10-01 [cit. 2019-11-02]. Dostupné online.
6. BEDNÁROVÁ, Martina – KORDA, Eugen. Štefan Harabin ide do volieb. Zakladá politickú stranu Vlasť [online]. In .týždeň, 2019-10-01 [cit. 2019-11-02]. Dostupné online.
7. DEBNÁR, Ján – SLIZ, Martin. Voľby 2020: Štefan Harabin bude volebným lídrom strany Vlasť [online]. In Aktuality.sk, 2019-10-01 [cit. 2019-11-02]. Dostupné online.
8. TASR. Harabin zakladá stranu Vlasť, bude jej volebným lídrom [online]. In Pravda, 2019-10-01 [cit. 2019-11-02]. Dostupné online.
9. TASR. Kotleba vyzýva Harabina na spoločný postup vo voľbách [online]. In SME, 2019-10-16 [cit. 2019-11-02]. Dostupné online.
10. TKAČENKO, Peter. Harabin tlačí Danka pod čiaru. Nad piatimi percentami bude tesno [online]. In SME, 2019-10-01 [cit. 2019-11-02]. Dostupné online.
11. "Euro voľby 2014 na Slovensku". vysledkyvolieb.sk.
12. "Voľby do VÚC (Župné voľby) 2017 na Slovensku". vysledkyvolieb.sk.

External links

• Oficiálne webové sídlo