Communist Party of Slovakia

For the old party with the same name, see Communist Party of Slovakia (1939).

Communist Party of Slovakia Komunistická strana Slovenska

Leader	Jozef Hrdlička
Founded	28 August 1992
Merger of	KSS '91 and ZKS
Headquarters	Bratislava
Membership (2015)	2,100^[1]
Ideology	Communism, Marxism–Leninism^[2]
Political position	Left-wing
European affiliation	Initiative of Communist and Workers' Parties Party of the European Left (observer)
International affiliation	International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
European Parliament group	None
Colours	Red
Website
www.kss.sk
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The Communist Party of Slovakia (Slovak: Komunistická strana Slovenska, KSS) is a communist party in Slovakia, formed in 1992, through the merger of the Communist Party of Slovakia – 91 and the Communist League of Slovakia.

The party is observer of the Party of the European Left although it criticizes the Political Theses for the 1st Congress of European Left.^[3]

Electoral results

Results since 1992 (year links to election page)
Year	Type of Election	Votes	%	Seats
1992	Parliament	23,349	0.76%	0
1994	Parliament	78,419	2.73%	0
1998	Parliament	94,015	2.79%	0
2002	Parliament	181,872	6.33%	11
2004	European Parliament	31,908	4.54%	0
2006	Parliament	89,418	3.88%	0
2009	European Parliament	13,643	1.65%	0
2010	Parliament	21,104	0.83%	0
2012	Parliament	18,583	0.72%	0
2014	European Parliament	8,510	1.51%	0
2016	Parliament	16,278	0.62%	0

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) Kotleba – People's Party Our Slovakia (14) Most–Híd (11) We Are Family (11) Network (10)

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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Communist parties in Europe

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European Parliament group: European United Left - Nordic Green Left

Parties

Member parties	KPÖ KP PC ПКБ/PKB BL/БЛ SDS Ø EÜV SKP Vas. PCF PG GU Die Linke Syriza/ΣΥΡΙΖΑ Munkáspárt 2006 PRC Déi Lénk/La Gauche/Die Linke B.E. PCRM PAS RCS ZL IU PCE EUiA PdA/PST-POP/PC/PSL ÖDP

Observer parties	UAG AKEL/ΑΚΕΛ KSČM DKP PdCI YKP BKP MS KSS

Former members	Munkáspárt