Slovene People's Party (historical)

Slovene People's Party
Slovenska ljudska stranka
FounderAnton Korošec
Founded1892
Dissolved1945 (outlawed)
Succeeded bySlovenian People's Party
IdeologyConservatism
Slovenian autonomy
Christian democracy
Slovenian nationalism

The Slovene People's Party (Slovene: Slovenska ljudska stranka, pronounced [slɔˈʋèːnska ˈljúːtska ˈstráːŋka], Slovene abbreviation SLS) was a Slovenian political party in the 19th and 20th centuries, active in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Between 1907 and 1941, it was the largest and arguably the most influential political party in the Slovene Lands. It was dissolved by the Yugoslav Communist authorities in 1945, but continued to be active in exile until 1992, when it merged with the Slovene Christian Democrats. The contemporary Slovene People's Party, founded in 1988, was named after it.[citation needed]

Representatives of the Slovene People's Party in the Provincial Diet of Carniola shortly before World War I. The party's president Ivan Šušteršič sits in the middle.
The funeral of Janez Evangelist Krek in Ljubljana in 1917 turned into a manifestation of the Party popular support.
Cultural meeting organized by the Slovene People's Party during the January 6th Dictatorship, when the SLS became the main opposition to the authoritarian regime of Alexander I of Yugoslavia in Slovenia.