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Change from Below, Democratic Union of Slovakia Zmena zdola, Demokratická únia Slovenska
Abbreviation	Zmena zdola, DÚ
Leader	Ján Budaj
Founded	7 September 2000; 25 years ago (2000-09-07)
Split from	Democratic Union
Headquarters	Hybešova 41,Bratislava
Membership(2021)	51[1]
Ideology	Liberal conservatism[2]
Political position	Centre-right
National affiliation	Democrats Until 2022: Civic Democratic Platform, OĽaNO
International affiliation	Liberal International (until 2004)
Colours	Yellow andblue
National Council	0 / 150
European Parliament	0 / 15
Website
zmenazdola.sk
Politics of Slovakia Political parties Elections

Change from Below, Democratic Union of Slovakia (sometimes translated asChange from the Bottom orChange from the Bottom Up;Slovak:Zmena zdola, Demokratická únia Slovenska,ZZ, DÚ), in the years 2000—2002Liberal Democratic Union (abbreviationLDÚ), and 2002—2010Democratic Union of Slovakia (abbreviationDÚ), is a non-parliamentary political party inSlovakia since 2000. Its chairmanJán Budaj is a member of theNational Council of the Slovak Republic elected on theOĽaNO party's list of candidates.

• Ján Budaj – chairman

• Juraj Smatana – teacher, popular blogger and civic activist. Member of the Regional Office of theTrenčín Region elected as thePovažská Bystrica District.^[3]

The Democratic Union of Slovakia was founded by a group of members of theDemocratic Union, dissatisfied with the merger of the Democratic Union into theSlovak Democratic and Christian Union. The group was led by Ján Budaj, who was elected chairman of the party on the founding republican committee on November 4, 2000. The party was registered with the Ministry of the Interior on September 7, 2000, under the original name of the Liberal Democratic Union. In 2002, the party was renamed to a name almost identical to the name of the defunct party "Democratic Union" (seeDemocratic Union of Slovakia (1994) / DEÚS andDemocratic Union / DÚ).

• 2002 parliamentary election - the party ran for election in coalition with theDemocratic Party. Just before the elections, however, the Democratic Party withdrew the candidate with a recommendation for its supporters to elect theSlovak Democratic and Christian Union, and thus the Democratic Union of Slovakia dropped out of the election competition without its own intervention.
• 2004 European Parliament election - the party achieved an electoral gain of 0.19% of the vote and did not get into theEuropean Parliament.
• 2002 parliamentary election - party politicians took part in the elections for the candidate of theFree Forum, which did not get into parliament.
• 2012 parliamentary election - the party achieved an electoral gain of 1.29% and did not get into theNational Counci.
• 2016 parliamentary election - the party as an independent subject did not run for parliamentary elections, but after an agreement with theOrdinary People and Independent Personalities movement.

As the party has not run for the National Council of the Slovak Republic independently since 2012, the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic does not record its preferences.

• since 2000 Ján Budaj

• Democratic Union of Slovakia
• Democratic Union (Slovakia)

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