Direction – Slovak Social Democracy (Slovak: Smer – slovenská sociálna demokracia, SMER–SSD), formerly and legally called Direction – Social Democracy (Slovak: Smer – sociálna demokracia, SMER–SD), is a social democratic and left-wing populist political party in Slovakia led by the former prime minister Robert Fico. The party claims to represent social democracy with Slovak national specifics. It was founded in 1999 as a splinter from the post-communist Party of the Democratic Left, a successor to the Communist Party of Slovakia, which was a branch of the then-ruling Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. Initially a big tent populist party, started to build its national brand as a Third Way alternative in 2003. It switched its name to Direction – Social Democracy and adopted social democratic positions after merging with several minor centre-left parties in 2005. More information...
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