Common Choice (''Spoločná voľba'') was an election union in

Slovakia Slovakia, officially the Slovak Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the west, and the Czech Republic to the northwest. Slovakia's m ...

from 1994 to 1997. Members were the post-communist '' Party of the Democratic Left'' (''SDL''), the ''

Social Democratic Party of Slovakia The Social Democratic Party of Slovakia (, SDSS) was a centre-left political party in Slovakia. Its last chairman, since 1993, was , and its chairman in 1992 was Alexander Dubček. Czechoslovakia (until 1992) The party arose after the Velvet Rev ...

'' (''SDSS''), the minor ''Farmers' Movement'', the '' Slovak Green Party'' and the minor ''Left Bloc''. The ''SDSS'' did not get into the Slovak parliament in 1992, which was the reason they joined the ''Common Choice''. ''Common Choice'' gained 10.18% (18 seats) in the Slovak parliament. This was beneath all expectations.Csilla Machos: ''Organisationsstrukturen linker Parlamentsparteien in Ostmitteleuropa'', Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung 2002. They were in opposition against Mečiar's third government. In 1997, the SDĽ pledged to support the government of

Vladimír Mečiar Vladimír Mečiar (; born 26 July 1942) is a Slovak former politician who served as the prime minister of Slovakia from June 1990 to May 1991, June 1992 to March 1994, and again from December 1994 to October 1998. He was the leader of the Movemen ...

while the ''SDSS'' focussed themselves on the other opposition parties and later joined the

Slovak Democratic Coalition The Slovak Democratic Coalition (, SDK) was an electoral platform—constituted as an instrumental political party—for the 1998 parliamentary election. The party split in 2000, when some members rejoined their original parties, while others, l ...

. Because of this rift, the ''Common Choice'' failed and split into different factions.

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