Alliance of the New Citizen

"CITIZENS" redirects here. For other uses, see Citizen (disambiguation).
Alliance of the New Citizen
Aliancia nového občana
Leader
Founded2001
Dissolved2017
Ideology
Political positionCentre-right[3]
European affiliationELDR
European Parliament groupELDR (2004)
International affiliationLiberal International (2001–2009)

The Alliance of the New Citizen (Slovak: Aliancia nového občana, ANO) was a liberal[4] political party in Slovakia existing from 2001 to 2011. The acronym was a pun on áno, Slovak for "yes". It was founded and led by media entrepreneur Pavol Rusko. The party positioned itself as liberal and was a member of international liberal organisations. It was part of the centre-right governing coalition of Prime Minister Mikuláš Dzurinda from October 2002 to September 2005.

After its first election, its populist appeal waned and it developed a more liberal approach.[5][6]

ANO was legally renamed and thus succeeded (but not in terms of personnel or political positions) by the Free Word Party of Nora Mojsejová (Slovak: Strana Slobodné Slovo – Nory Mojsejovej, SSS-NM) in November 2011, when Eleonóra Mojsejová a Slovak businesswoman and TV personality took over the party. The party changed its name to CITIZENS (Slovak: OBČANIA) in 2013 and in 2014 to IDEA. It was finally dissolved in 2017. Its last president was Miroslav Leňo.

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