The Party of Alenka Bratušek (, SAB) was a

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. The party was formed from a split from

Positive Slovenia Positive Slovenia (, PS) was a centre-left political party in Slovenia, following April 2014 led by founder Zoran Janković. The party was founded under the name ''Zoran Janković's List – Positive Slovenia''. It was renamed to ''Positive ...

in May 2014, and merged into the Freedom Movement in June 2022. The party participated in both the Bratušek and Šarec governments.

History

The party was formed by

Alenka Bratušek Alenka Bratušek (; born 31 March 1970) is a Slovenian politician, who was the Prime Minister of Slovenia from March 2013 until May 2014 as the first woman in Slovenia to hold this position. She was president ''pro tempore'' of the Positive Slove ...

, who resigned as

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on 5 May 2014, and other former members of

(PS). The party was founded on 31 May 2014 under the name the Alliance of Alenka Bratušek (, ZaAB). Among the founding members were incumbent PS MPs Maša Kociper, Jerko Čehovin, Jani Möderndorfer, Maja Dimitrovski, former MP Peter Vilfan, ministers Roman Jakič and Metod Dragonja. Present were also several guests: former Mercator retail group chief executive Miran Goslar, Verjamem party leader Igor Šoltes, MEP

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and

Social Democrat Social democracy is a Social philosophy, social, Economic ideology, economic, and political philosophy within socialism that supports Democracy, political and economic democracy and a gradualist, reformist, and democratic approach toward achi ...

MP Matjaž Han,

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party president Darja Radić and the

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's Gorazd Žmauc. The party won 4.34% of the vote in 13 July 2014's Slovenian parliamentary election – and four seats in parliament. On 21 November 2014, the party became a full member of the

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. On 21 May 2016 the party was renamed to the Alliance of Social-Liberal Democrats (). On 7 October 2017, the party again changed its title to include the founder's name in preparation for the upcoming parliamentary elections, becoming the Party of Alenka Bratušek. The party's Secretary General Jernej Pavlič stated that the name was changed to improve name recognition. In the 3 June 2018 parliamentary election, the party garnered 5.11% of the vote and won five MP seats. In 13 September 2018 party became a coalition partner in the Šarec government, a cabinet formed by the List of Marjan Šarec,

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and

. In the

2022 Slovenian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Slovenia on 24 April 2022 to elect all 90 members of the National Assembly. The ruling Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS), led by prime minister Janez Janša, conceded and was defeated by Robert Golob and his ...

, the party failed to win any seats in the National Assembly. Subsequently, the party members voted in June 2022 to dissolve the party and merge with the Freedom Movement, the social liberal party of

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which formed government after the 2022 general election. The Freedom Movement voted in favor of the merger on 27 June, with the official merger completed on 12 July.

Leadership

; President *

; Vice-Presidents *Maša Kociper *Tatjana Voj *Slavko Šterman ; Party Council Members elected in 2014 included Metod Dragonja, Roman Jakič, Jani Möderndorfer and Stojan Pelko. ; Supervisory board Members elected in 2014 included Nika Poglajen, Tatjana Voj, Dejan Radunić.

Electoral results

National Assembly

European Parliament

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Alliance of Alenka Bratusek 2014 establishments in Slovenia Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party member parties Centrist parties in Slovenia Liberal parties in Slovenia Organizations based in Ljubljana Political parties established in 2014 Political parties disestablished in 2022 Pro-European political parties in Slovenia Social liberal parties