National Coalition / Independent Candidates

The Rural Party (Slovak: Strana vidieka; SV),^[5] formerly known as Party of Democratic Slovakia,^[a] National Coalition^[b] and National Coalition / Independent Candidates^[c], is a Slovak nationalist political party founded in 2014 by the former politician of the ĽS-HZDS movement Sergej Kozlík. The party profiles itself in three pillars – national, Christian and social. Since 2024, the chairman of the party has been Rudolf Huliak. Before the 2020 parliamentary election, the National Coalition joined an electoral coalition with the far-right People's Party Our Slovakia party, but did not win any mandate in the National Council.^[6]

Rural Party Strana vidieka
Abbreviation	SV
Chairman	Rudolf Huliak
Deputy Chairleaders	Roman Malatinec Libor Slamka Pavel Zacharovský
Founder	Sergej Kozlík
Founded	5 March 2014 (2014-03-05) (SDS) 14 August 2015 (2015-08-14) (NK) 21 July 2022 (2022-07-21) (NK/NEKA)
Preceded by	People's Party – Movement for a Democratic Slovakia
Headquarters	Belanská 580, 03301 Liptovský Hrádok
Membership (2022)	1,879[1]
Ideology	Slovak nationalism[2] Ultranationalism[3] National conservatism Right-wing populism Hard Euroscepticism
Political position	Far-right[4]
National affiliation	Slovak National Party (2023–2024)
European affiliation	European Democratic Party (2014–2019)
Colours	Red   Blue
Slogan	"We fight for you" (Slovak: Bojujeme za vás)
National Council	3 / 150
European Parliament	0 / 15
Regional Presidents	0 / 8
Regional parliaments	1 / 408
Mayors	0 / 2,904
Local councillors	151 / 20,686
Website
narodnakoalicia.sk
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History

In the 2019 presidential election, the party expressed support for Štefan Harabin.^[7] In the 2019 European Parliament election, Štefan Harabin's nephew Slavomír Harabin ran for the National Coalition. The party received only 0.72% of the vote and did not win any seats.

In November 2019, the National Coalition became one of the small Slovak political parties that signed a memorandum on the cooperation of "pro-national and Christian forces" for the upcoming parliamentary elections with the People's Party Our Slovakia.^[8] A de jure coalition was not created, the Kotleba party only freed up a certain number of seats on their candidate list for other parties.^[6] NK received 10 places on the candidate list, with chairwoman Slavěna Vorobelová placed highest in 16th place. Thanks to receiving a higher number of preference votes, three other candidates were elected ahead of her, and she remained outside parliament, placing 19th overall after Danica Mikovčáková's mandate was given up as the first substitute.^[9] The party later left the candidate list.^[10]

Electoral results

Parliamentary elections

Election	Leader	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Government
2023	Pavel Zacharovský	166,995*	5.62* (#7)*	3 / 150	3	Government

^* the politicians of the National Coalition ran on the SNS candidate list, three of the elected deputies represent SV, however eventually, they paused their membership and continued as independent, meaning the party was officially represented by 0 members of the parliament.

European Parliament elections

Election	Leader	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
2014	Sergej Kozlík	8,378	1.49 (#14)	0 / 13	1**
2019	Slavěna Vorobelová	7,145	0.72 (#15)	0 / 14	0

^**compared to ĽS-HZDS

Notes

1. Slovak: Strana demokratického Slovenska; SDS
2. Slovak: Národná koalícia; NK
3. Slovak: Národná koalícia / Nezávislí kandidáti; NK/NEKA