Slovakia: Parliament, 5 March 2016

At stake in this election:

• 150 seats in the Národná rada Slovenskej republiky (National Council)

Description of government structure:

• Chief of State: President Andrej KISKA (since 15 June 2014)
• Head of Government: Prime Minister Robert FICO (since 4 April 2012)
• Assembly: Slovakia has a unicameral National Council of the Slovak Republic (Národná rada Slovenskej republiky) with 150 seats.

Description of electoral system:

• Members of the National Council are elected through a flexible-list proportional representation system to serve 4-year terms.

Last Election:

• Parliamentary elections were last held on 10 March 2012, with the social-democratic Smer Party taking 83 seats in the assembly. The previous election marked the first time in Slovakia’s post-communist history that a single party has held a parliamentary majority.

Main parties in the election:[1]

• Direction - Social Democracy/Smer–sociálna demokracia (Smer)
  • Leader: Robert FICO
  • Seats won in last election: 83
• Christian Democratic Movement (KDH)/Kresťanskodemokratické hnutie (KDH)
  • Leader: Jan FIGEL
  • Seats won in last election: 16
• Ordinary People and Independent Personalities/Obyčajní Ľudia a nezávislé osobnosti (OĽaNO)
  • Leader: Igor MATOVIC
  • Seats won in last election: 16
• Bridge/Most-Hid
  • Leader: Bela BUGAR
  • Seats won in last election: 13
• Slovak Democratic and Christian Union - Democratic Party (SDKU-DS)/Slovenská demokratická a kresťanská únia – Demokratická strana (SDKÚ-DS)
  • Leader: Pavol FRESO
  • Seats won in last election: 11
• Freedom and Solidarity (SaS)/Sloboda a Solidarita (SaS)
  • Leader: Richard SULIK
  • Seats won in last election: 11
• Network/ Sieť
  • Leader: Radoslav PROCHÁZKA
  • Seats won in last election: N/A
• Slovak National Party/Slovenská národná strana (SNS)
  • Leader: Andrej DANKO
  • Seats won in last election: 0
• Party of the Hungarian Community/Strana maďarskej komunity - Magyar Közösség Pártja (SMK-MKP)
  • Leader: József BERÉNYI
  • Seats won in last election: 0

Population and number of registered voters:

·         Population: 5,445,027 (July 2015 est.)

·         Registered Voters: 4,392,451 (2012)

Gender Data:

·         Female Population: 2,802,619 (July 2015 est.)

·         Is Slovakia a signatory to CEDAW: N/A

·         Has Slovakia ratified CEDAW: Yes, succession (28 May 1993)

·         Gender Quota: No

·         Female candidates in this election: Yes

·         Number of Female Parliamentarians: 24 (16%)

·         Human Development Index Position: 35 (2014)

·         Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) Categorization: N/A

Disability Data:

·         Is Slovakia a signatory to CRPD: Yes (26 September 2007)

·         Has Slovakia ratified CRPD: Yes (26 May 2010)

·         Population with a disability: 816,754