Free Forum

Free Forum
Leader	Zuzana Martináková
Founded	13 January 2004
Headquarters	Bratislava
Ideology	Liberalism
Political position	Centre
European affiliation	European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (observer)
International affiliation	None
European Parliament group	None
Colours	Blue, Yellow
Website
http://www.slobodneforum.sk
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The Free Forum (Slovak: Slobodné fórum pronunciation ; "Free" in the sense of "freedom") is a political party in Slovakia, founded in 2004 by dissident parliamentarians from the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union (SDKÚ). Zuzana Martináková is the leader of the party.

The Free Forum was founded in January 2004 by Ivan Šimko and other Slovak Democratic and Christian Union MPs. Two months later, Zuzana Martináková was elected party leader, and Šimko left later that year. In the 2006 parliamentary election, the party won 3.47% of the vote: falling short of the 5% threshold to join the Slovak Parliament. In the 2010 parliamentary election, the party formed part of Union – Party for Slovakia, which won only 0.7% of the vote.

History

13 January 2004 – Ivan Šimko and a group of MPs left the SDKÚ, after frictions with Mikuláš Dzurinda
27 March 2004 – surprisingly Zuzana Martináková was elected the party leader
October 2004 – Ivan Šimko left the party and founded a new political party named Mission 21 (Slovak: Misia 21)
17 April 2009 – became an observer member of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (until 2011)^[1]

Political parties in Slovakia

In the National Council (150 seats)	Direction – Social Democracy (49) Freedom and Solidarity (21) Ordinary People and Independent Personalities (19) Slovak National Party (15) Most–Híd (15) Kotleba – People's Party Our Slovakia (14) We Are Family (11) Network (2) Independent (4)

In the European Parliament (13 seats)	Direction – Social Democracy (4) Christian Democratic Movement (2) Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party (2) Freedom and Solidarity (1) Most–Híd (1) Party of the Hungarian Community (1) New Majority (1) Ordinary People and Independent Personalities (1)

Extra-parliamentary parties	ASV Dawn DÚ Forward Hope HZD IDEA KČaS KDS KĽS KSS ĽB ĽS LS Mission 21 NF NOSNP OKS OL PS RIS SDĽ SF SLNKO SĽS SNJ S.O.S. SPS SP SPV-G3000 SRK SRS SZ SZS VZDOR ZRS Z-SNP ŽS ZSNS 99%

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