Common Choice

Common Choice
Common Choice; Spoločná voľba
Founded	1994
Dissolved	1997
Ideology	Social democracy
Political position	Centre-left
Member parties	Party of the; Democratic Left; Social Democratic Party; Green Party; Farmers' Movement; Left Bloc;
	Politics of Slovakia; Political parties; Elections;

Common Choice (Spoločná voľba) was an election union in Slovakia from 1994-1997.

Members were the post-communist Party of the Democratic Left (SDL), the Social Democratic Party of Slovakia (SDSS), the minor Farmers' Movement, the Slovak Green Party and the minor Left Bloc.

The SDSS did not get into the Slovak parliament in 1992, which was the reason they joined the Common Choice.

Common Choice gained 10.18% (18 seats) in the Slovak parliament. This was beneath all expectations.[1] They were in opposition against Mečiar's third government.

In 1997, the SDĽ pledged to support the government of Vladimír Mečiar while the SDSS focussed themselves on the other opposition parties and later joined the Slovak Democratic Coalition. Because of this rift, the Common Choice failed and split into different factions.[2]

References

Csilla Machos: Organisationsstrukturen linker Parlamentsparteien in Ostmitteleuropa, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung 2002.
Ebenda.

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[1] Csilla Machos: Organisationsstrukturen linker Parlamentsparteien in Ostmitteleuropa, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung 2002.

[2] Ebenda.