Lipa (

Lime Tree ''Tilia'' is a genus of about 30 species of trees or bushes, native throughout most of the temperate Northern Hemisphere. The tree is known as linden for the European species, and basswood for North American species. In Britain and Ireland they ...

) or Party Lime Tree is a

nationalist Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement, nationalism tends to promote the interests of a particular nation (as in a group of people), Smith, Anthony. ''Nationalism: The ...

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology ...

Slovenia Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, an ...

. The party takes its name from the leaf of the lime tree, which has traditionally been an emblem favoured by the Slovenes. The party was formed on 1 March 2008 after the Members of Parliament Sašo Peče, Barbara Žgajner Tavš and Boštjan Zagorac decided to quit the

Slovenian National Party The Slovenian National Party ( sl, Slovenska Nacionalna Stranka, SNS) is a Nationalism, nationalist List of political parties in Slovenia, political party in Slovenia led by Zmago Jelinčič Plemeniti. The party is known for its Euroscepticism a ...

(SNS), following disagreements within the party. The party ran in the

2008 Slovenian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Slovenia on 21 September 2008 to elect the 90 deputies of the National Assembly. 17 parties filed to run in the election, including all nine parliamentary parties. The election was won by the Social Democrats ...

and achieved only 1.82% of the vote, thus losing its seats in parliament. The party did not participate in the early

2011 Slovenian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Slovenia on 4 December 2011 to elect the 90 deputies of the National Assembly. This was the first early election in Slovenia's history. The election was surprisingly won by the center-left Positive Slovenia par ...

on 4 December 2011.

Electoral performance

References

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