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29-680: The OKS was founded in November 2001 as a parliamentary schism from the Democratic Party . The party has relied on electoral alliances with other centre-right parties, including the Sloboda a Solidarita (SaS), Most–Híd and Conservative Democrats of Slovakia (KDS). The party won its best result, of 2.1%, in alliance with the KDS at the 2009 European election . The party won seats in the National Council for

58-647: A centre-right coalition government, which the Civic Conservatives supported, but the OKS did not join the government themselves, and remained separate from Most–Híd. In August, the party objected to coalition plans for tax reform, calling instead for closing tax loopholes and funding lower taxes by cutting government spending. In October 2010, Peter Zajac called for Dobroslav Trnka to step down as General Prosecutor, after Trnka criticised Interior Minister Daniel Lipšic and other officials, saying that Trnka did not respect

87-624: A fee for the party to participate. In March 2006, OKS member Ondrej Dostál applied to the Constitutional Court , considering the possible unconstitutionality of the election participation fee, saying the fee affects his right to run for office. In the election, former chairman of the Czechoslovak Constitutional Court Ernest Valko and former Minister of Health Rudolf Zajac appeared on the OKS list. The party obtained 6,262 votes which represented 0.27% share of

116-505: A law restricting the government's power to build highways on privately owned land, which had earlier been ruled unconstitutional. In October 2011, the party opposed the government's commitment to the European Financial Stability Facility . In response, František Šebej left the OKS on 11 October and joined Most–Híd. After the subsequent fall of the government, the OKS attempted to renew their alliance with Most–Híd at

145-549: Is the possibility that the state might lose 66 million euro . There have been allegations that Valko was murdered because of the Tipos vs. Lemikon Limited case. Ernest Valko was found dead by his daughter and ex-wife in his home in Limbach on 8 November 2010. His death is under investiagion by Úrad boja proti organizovanej kriminalite . According to newspaper SME , there are four possible motives for Valko's murder: As of May 2011,

174-498: Is to pursue conservative values stemming from the inner need of individuals to live in a world whose highest value is personal freedom tempered by personal responsibility and an awareness of personal obligations towards society. The OKS characterizes itself as a party of reforms. According to its platform, it rejects: It respects the historical memory as a part of the national cultural identity and thus rejects lining up behind autocracy, communism and fascism . The stated aim of

203-468: The 2012 election , but were rejected. Instead, several OKS candidates were running on the Ordinary People list. However, they had left the list before the elections, in protest to the request of the leader of Ordinary People Igor Matovič , that all candidates from the list undertake polygraph test. The party advocates respect for people regardless of their religion, race and nationality. Their aim

232-721: The National Council on 10 November 2001. The DS initially offered the OKS and the Liberal-Democratic Union to run in the 2002 election , on a united list, but then withdrew and endorsed the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union . The OKS attempted to negotiate a joint list with the Christian Democratic Movement and Party of the Hungarian Coalition , but this failed to materialise. Undeterred,

261-524: The National Council , embedded within the Most–Híd party list of candidates: In 2012–2016 OKS did not have any Member of Parliament. After 2016 parliamentary elections OKS had one Member of the National Council. Ondrej Dostál, party leader, was elected on the party list of Sloboda a Solidarita (SaS). Since the 2020 parliamentary elections OKS has two Members of the National Council. Ondrej Dostál, party leader, and Radovan Kazda were elected on

290-623: The Czech Civic Democrats . The OKS supported František Mikloško of the Christian Democratic Movement (KDH) in the 2004 presidential election . Mikloško was one of the few candidates not being former members of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia , and ended up fifth with 6.51% share of the total vote. In the European election two months later, the party fielded Peter Osuský as its sole candidate. He received 7,016 votes: 1% share of

319-578: The Czechoslovak federal parliament ( Czech : Sněmovna lidu ) in the period 1990–1991. From 31 January 1992 to 31 December 1992 he was the chairman of the Constitutional Court of Czechoslovakia, the only one in its history. After the creation of Slovakia in 1993 he established his own law firm and specialised in constitutional law. In 2006 he unsuccessfully run for the Slovak parliament . Ernest Valko

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348-516: The Democratic Party (Ivan Mikloš, for example, became a chairman of the newly founded Slovak Democratic and Christian Union ), and František Šebej became the new chairman for short time and was quickly replaced by Ľudovít Kaník . In the 2002 election, the party run for parliamentary seats together with the parties Civic Conservative Party (OKS, led by Ján Langoš ) and Liberal-Democratic Union (LDÚ, led by Ján Budaj ), both of which arose in

377-427: The OKS is to pursue the system of European conservative values such as consistency, veracity, fairness, honesty, respectability, solidarity, and observance of written and non-written treaties and agreements. The OKS had three members of regional parliaments in 2009–2013: A fourth member of a regional parliament, František Šebej ( Bratislava ), left the party in 2011. In 2010–2012 OKS had four members of

406-583: The OKS ran alone under the banner 'Call for Slovakia' ( Výzva pre Slovensko ) and gained 9,422 votes, or 0.32% of the national total. In the December 2002 local elections , two mayors were elected for OKS. In addition, OKS took 20 deputy seats, or 0.1% of the seats nationwide. In July 2003, it was one of four parties across Europe endorsing the soft eurosceptic Prague Appeal , along with the British Conservative Party , Law and Justice of Poland, and

435-616: The better known Civic Forum ) as a member of parliament into the Federálne zhromaždenie (English: Federal assembly ) in 1990. During his time in the parliament, Valko helped formulate the novelisations of the Labour Law, Trade Law, Competence Law, implementing the Charter of fundamental rights and freedoms and the constitutional Law of Referendum. He served as the deputy speaker of the Lower House of

464-493: The course of the dissolution of the SDK. Shortly before the election however the party withdraw its candidature and recommended its voters to vote for the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union (SDKÚ) of Mikuláš Dzurinda . This was due to an agreement with the SDKÚ, according to which Ľudovít Kaník, the chairman of the Democratic Party, received one seat in the new 2002 government - the seat of

493-717: The end of the Velvet Revolution that ended the communist rule in Czechoslovakia, the SSO decided to change its name to Democratic Party, claiming to be a continuation of the historical Democratic Party that had existed from 1944 to 1948 and had been the strongest party in Slovakia during the immediate post-war period before the communist takeover. The DS won 7 seats out of 150 in the Slovak parliament ( Slovak National Council ) and no seats in

522-527: The federal parliament in 1990, but no seats in any parliament in 1992. In 1994, the party was "recreated" by a merge with the parties: The new chairman of the party was P. Hagyari, and the vice-chairman was Ivan Mikloš , the finance minister of Slovakia in 2010 - 2012. In the 1994 parliamentary election, the party run for parliamentary seats together with the Strana podnikateľov a živnostníkov (Party of Entrepreneurs and businessmen), but again won no seats. Hagyari

551-503: The first time in 2010 , on the Most–Híd list. In 2016 the party won one seat in the National Council on the Sloboda a Solidarita list and in 2020 election the party won two seats also on the Sloboda a Solidarita list. The OKS was a member of the Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe until 2022. The Civic Conservative Party was formed by Democratic Party (DS) members of

580-446: The law or the human rights of ethnic Hungarians . The party supported changes to the controversial State Language Act , but the OKS's Ondrej Dostál said the changes did not go far enough in allowing use of minority languages. In March 2011, the party opposed the government's plans to increase taxes on the self-employed , and instead proposed funding cuts in payroll tax by cutting government spending. The four OKS MPs have proposed

609-545: The minister of social affairs and family. After a scandal, however, Kaník left the government in October 2005 and talks about a merge of the Democratic Party with the SDKÚ were announced. The extraordinary party congress held on December 17, 2005 approved that the party would merge with the SDKÚ (whose name then changed to SDKÚ-DS ). The merger was approved by a SDKÚ congress held on January 21, 2006. Ernest Valko Ernest Valko , JUDr., PhD. (10 August 1953 – 8 November 2010)

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638-545: The party list of Sloboda a Solidarita (SaS). Democratic Party (Slovakia, 1989) The Democratic Party ( Slovak : Demokratická strana , DS ) was a political party in Slovakia , active between 1989 and 2006. The party emerged from the Democratic Party Party of Slovak Revival (SSO) which had been a bloc party within the communist-dominated National Front of the ČSSR since 1948. In December 1989, at

667-527: The total vote. In the 2009 regional elections , the OKS won four seats, up one from 2005: three in Bratislava Region and one in Žilina Region . In the 2010 election , fourteen OKS members stood on the Most–Híd party list. Strongly defining themselves as against the left-wing nationalist coalition, four MPs were elected from the list, along with ten Most–Híd members. This gave the OKS its first parliamentary representation since 2002. Most–Híd entered

696-560: The vote. In the 2005 regional elections , the party gained three seats: František Šebej and Peter Tatár in Bratislava Region and Katarína Adamicová in Žilina Region . This represented 0.72% share nationwide. OKS offered to run on the common candidate list with the Christian Democratic Movement in the 2006 parliamentary election . This offer was turned down by the KDH, the Civic Conservatives had to raise 500,000 korún as

725-413: Was SPP's attorney since 2000. There are similarities between the shootings of Ducký and Valko. Recently Valko represented Finance Minister Ivan Mikloš in a libel lawsuit filed against former prime minister of Slovakia Robert Fico , the leader of the opposition Smer party, in which Mikloš was successful. Valko also was recently representing the state-owned lottery company, Tipos, in a suit in which there

754-733: Was born in Spišská Nová Ves , at that time Czechoslovakia . He received his M.A. at the Faculty of Law, Comenius University in Bratislava (1973–1977). In 1979 he received his rigorosum at the same school. From 2000 to 2004 he studied postgradually at the Institute of State and Law of the Slovak Academy of Sciences , earning his dissertation in 2004. After the Velvet Revolution , he was co-opted by Verejnosť proti násiliu (the Slovak counterpart of

783-424: Was connected to many important lawsuits in the past, including: According to newspaper Pravda, Valko's murder may be connected to the 1999 shooting of former minister in three Slovak governments and privatisation oligarch Ján Ducký . Ducký, as the former director of SPP (Slovak Gas Industry – one of the most prosperous companies in Slovakia at that time) is the author of the so-called Duckého zmenky . Ernest Valko

812-501: Was replaced by Ján Langoš , the former minister of the interior of Czechoslovakia, in 1995. In the 1998 election, the party run for parliamentary seats within the coalition (later party) Slovak Democratic Coalition (SDK), so that many candidates of the Democratic Party got into the parliament as candidates of the SDK. In the course of the subsequent dissolution of the Slovak Democratic Coalition in 2001, some members left

841-497: Was the former chairman of the Czechoslovak Constitutional Court and prominent Slovak lawyer . Valko was shot dead inside his home in Limbach in 2010. As of May 2011, the investigation is still ongoing. According to newspaper Nový Čas, one of the versions points to an organized crime group from Bratislava . Ernest Valko was connected to numerous high-profile lawsuits at the time of his death. Ernest Valko

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