Political party in Serbia
Slovaks Forward (Slovak:Slováci vpred, abbr.SV;Serbian:Словаци напред,romanized: Slovaci napred, abbr.SN) is apolitical party inSerbia, representing theSlovak ethnic minority inVojvodina. Its leader isPavel Surovi. The party is aligned withAleksandar Vučić and theSerbian Progressive Party.[1]
Slovak National Council
[edit]Slovaks Forward won nine out of twenty-nine seats in Serbia's 2014 Slovak National Council election and eight seats in the 2018 election.[2][3][4] Surovi was chosen as council vice-president after the 2018 election, although he was removed from this role in February 2021.[5]
Vojvodina provincial politics
[edit]Slovaks Forward was registered as a political party in late 2015.[6] It joined theSerbian Progressive Party's electoral alliance for the2016 Vojvodina provincial election; Surovi was included on the Progressive Party'selectoral list in the thirty-third position and was elected when the list won a majority victory with sixty-three out of 120 mandates.[7] He was promoted to the fifteenth position on the Progressive list in the2020 provincial election and was re-elected when the list won an increased majority with seventy-six mandates.[8] As of 2021, Surovi is the sole representative of his party in the assembly. He sits in caucus with the Progressive Party'sAleksandar Vučić – For Our Children parliamentary group.[9]
Surovi was confirmed for a new term as party leader in December 2019.[10]
- ^"Stranka "Slovaci napred" podržava Vučića".Radio Television of Vojvodina (in Serbian). 30 March 2022. Retrieved30 March 2022.
- ^ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (СЛОВАЦИ НАПРЕД! - ПАВЕЛ СУРОВИ) and РЕЗУЛТАТИ ИЗБОРА (Извештај о укупним резултатима избора за чланове Националног савета словачке националне мањине), Избори за чланове националног савета словачке националне мањине, одржани 26. октобра 2014. године (непосредни избори), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 8 February 2021.
- ^Проглашене изборне листе – Национални савет СЛОВАЧКЕ националне мањине (Решење о проглашењу Изборне листе СЛОВАЦИ НАПРЕД! – SLOVÁCI VPRED! – ПАВЕЛ СУРОВИ СЛОВАЦИ НАПРЕД! – SLOVÁCI VPRED! – PAVEL SUROVÝ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 8 February 2021.
- ^Укупни резултати избора за националне савете националних мањина – Национални савет СЛОВАЧКЕ националне мањине (Извештај о укупним резултатима избора), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 8 February 2021.
- ^"Slobodna Vojvodina: Smena potpredsednika Nacionalnog saveta Slovaka obračun struja u SNS-u",Novi Magazin, 5 February 2021, accessed 8 February 2021.
- ^"Serbia's registered political party count reaches 107", B92, 5 January 2016, accessed 8 February 2021.
- ^Изборне листе за изборе за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне покрајине Војводине (Изборна листа 1 - АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ – СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ Изборна листа), Избори 2016, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 7 July 2020.
- ^Изборне листе кандидата за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне покрајине Војводине (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ – ЗА НАШУ ДЕЦУ.), Izbori 2020, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 1 January 2021.
- ^Pavel Surový, Assembly of Vojvodina, accessed 8 February 2021.
- ^СТРАНКА 'СЛОВАЦИ НАПРЕД!' Сурови поново на челу партије",Dnevnik, 23 December 2019, accessed 8 February 2021.
