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Notes:
• SDĽ was still the Communist Party of Slovakia (KSS) in 1990; but changed its name to
SDĽ in 1991. It ran as the coalition “Common Choice” in 1994 with SDSS, the Greens
and a small agriculturalist party.
• The current KSS was re-established in 1992.
• HZDS separated from VPN in 1991. Rump VPN ran in 1992 as the Civic Democratic
Union (ODÚ).
• SDK was an electoral party composed of KDH, DÚ, DS, SDSS and the Greens.
• SMK ran as the coalition of Coexistence (ESWS) and the Hungarian Christian Demo-
cratic Movement (MKDM) in 1990 and 1992; also the Hungarian Civic Party (MOS)
joined them in the “Hungarian Coalition” in 1994. In 1998 the three parties merged.
Presidents:
Michal Kováč
(March 1993 – March 1998)
Rudolf Schuster
(June 1999 – June 2004)
Ivan Gašparovič
(June 2004 – today)
Governments:
1.
Milan Čič
(December 1989 – June 1990)
2.
Vladimír Mečiar
(June 1990 – April 1991)
3.
Ján Čarnogurský
(April 1991 – June 1992)
4.
Vladimír Mečiar
(June 1992 – March 1994)
5.
Jozef Moravčík
(March 1994 – December 1994)
6.
Vladimír Mečiar
(December 1994 – October 1998)
7.
Mikuláš Dzurinda
(October 1998 – October 2002)
8.
Mikuláš Dzurinda
(October 2002 – today)
