People's Party Our Slovakia

Kotlebists – People's Party Our Slovakia
Kotlebovci – Ľudová strana naše Slovensko
AbbreviationĽSNS
LeaderMarian Kotleba
Founded22 February 2010; 14 years ago (2010-02-22)
Preceded bySlovak Togetherness
HeadquartersNový svet 5667/63, Banská Bystrica
NewspaperNaše Slovensko
(Our Slovakia)
Youth wingĽudová mládež
(People's Youth)
Membership (2023)807 (Decrease 153)[1]
Ideology
Political positionFar-right[14]
European affiliationAlliance for Peace and Freedom
Colours  Green
SloganS Odvahou Proti Systému
("With Courage Against the System")
Anthem"Hej, Slováci"[15]
("Hey, Slovaks")
National Council
0 / 150
European Parliament
0 / 15
Regional Presidents
0 / 8
Regional parliaments
0 / 408
Mayors[a]
1 / 2,904
Local councillors[b]
75 / 20,686
Website
kotlebovci.sk

Kotlebists – People's Party Our Slovakia (Slovak: Kotlebovci – Ľudová strana naše Slovensko, ĽSNS) is a far-right,[16][17][18][19] neo-Nazi political party in Slovakia.[2][3][4] The party claims to derive its origin from the legacy of Andrej Hlinka and Jozef Tiso.[20]

Positioned on the far-right of the political spectrum, Kotlebists – People's Party Our Slovakia's political platform expresses xenophobic and antiziganist rhetoric,[18] Christian fundamentalism, paternalism and economic interventionism, interest-free national loans, replacement of the euro currency with the Slovak koruna, strengthening of law and order, rejection and criminalization of same-sex civil unions and LGBT rights, and strong anti-establishment sentiment, most notably against Slovakia's current foreign and domestic policy.

The party proposes to reduce the number of MPs from 150 to 100, restrict the expression of "degenerate material" in media, establish a home guard militia with the goal of cracking down on "gypsy criminality", promote a corporatist mixed economy, prohibit abortion conducted in the second and third trimester, institute a national health service, subsidize families in accordance to their fertility and race, and withdraw the Slovak military from foreign operations. In addition, it advocates for Slovakia's departure from the European Union, the European Monetary Union, and NATO, and agitates for closer ties with the Russian Federation and the CSTO.[18]

  1. ^ "Výročná správa za rok 2023" (PDF). Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic (in Slovak). 15 April 2024. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
  2. ^ a b c Foy, Henry (March 7, 2016). "Neo-Nazi party makes an electoral breakthrough in Slovakia". Financial Times.
  3. ^ a b c "Rise of proudly-neo-Nazi party unnerves a European nation". CBS News. November 18, 2016.
  4. ^ a b c Cunningham, Benjamin (3 June 2016). "5 takeaways from Slovakia's election". POLITICO. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  5. ^ "Masters thesis" (TXT). is.muni.cz.
  6. ^ Kluknavská, Alena (2015-03-14). "A right-wing extremist or people's protector? Media coverage of extreme right leader Marian Kotleba in 2013 regional elections in Slovakia". Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics. 1 (1). doi:10.17356/ieejsp.v1i1.35. ISSN 2416-089X.
  7. ^ "Not Even a Prosperous Slovakia Is Immune to Doubts About the E.U." New York Times. 17 December 2016.
  8. ^ "Kotlebovi nahrala celková xenofóbna atmosféra". Euractiv. 8 December 2016.
  9. ^ "Kotleba dal na úrad transparent Yankees go home! Stop NATO!". 29 August 2014.
  10. ^ "Kotlebovci spúšťajú petíciu za vystúpenie Slovenska z EÚ". Teraz. 25 June 2016.
  11. ^ "Slovensko má v politike tvrdých euroskeptikov, no žiadnych eurofederalistov". Euractiv. 11 February 2020.
  12. ^ "NAKA veriffied Kotleba because of money from Russia". Aktuality.sk. 2017-03-10. Retrieved 2017-03-10.
  13. ^ "Hoax: Vláda nás tlačí do vojny s Ruskom! ĽSNS šíri poplašné dezinformácie". Dennik N. 30 June 2017.
  14. ^ Antonis Klapsis (2015). An Unholy Alliance: The European Far Right and Putin's Russia. Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies. p. 14. ISBN 978-2-930632-39-1.
  15. ^ "spevácky zbor z Brezna zaspievaním hymny prvého slovenského štátu Hej, Slováci. V tej chvíli bola už celá sála na nohách a všetci prítomní spievali túto nádhernú pieseň, ktorá je zároveň aj hymnou Ľudovej strany Naše Slovensko". Dennik N. 2019-10-31. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
  16. ^ Vicenová, Radka (19 December 2013). "Slovakia: right-wing extremism on the rise". OpenDemocracy. Archived from the original on 11 December 2018. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  17. ^ Mareš, Miroslav; Stojar, Richard (2016). Extreme right perpetrators. Routledge. p. 80. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  18. ^ a b c Nociar, Tomáš (December 2012). "Right-Wing Extremism in Slovakia" (PDF). Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung International Policy Analysis: 5–6.
  19. ^ Bartek Pytlas (2015). Radical Right Parties in Central and Eastern Europe: Mainstream Party Competition and Electoral Fortune. Routledge. p. 224. ISBN 978-1-317-49586-4.
  20. ^ "O nás". Kotleba - Ľudová strana Naše Slovensko (in Slovak). Retrieved 2017-02-14.


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