Direction - Social Democracy

The Direction – Social Democracy (Slovak: Smer – sociálna demokracia) party — before January 1 2005 called Direction (the Third Way) (Smer (tretia cesta)) —, often just Smer, is a political party in Slovakia, led by Robert Fico. It is considered to be left of centre.It arose by splitting from the Party of the Democratic Left (Strana demokratickej ľavice, SDĽ) in 1999 (Robert Fico being the most popular SDL member at that time) and quickly became one of the most popular parties in Slovakia, while the popularity of the SDĽ, which was the successor of the original (i.e. pre-1990) Communist Party of Slovakia and was a government party from 1998 to 2002, was steadily decreasing.
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