People's Socialist Party (Yugoslavia)

The People's Socialist Party ( sr-Latn-Cyrl, Narodno-socijalistička stranka, Народно-социјалистичка странка; ) was a Slovenian political party in the

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. It was formed through a split from the

Yugoslav Democratic Party The Yugoslav Democratic Party, ''State Party of Serbian, Croatian and Slovene Democrats'' and Democratic Party, also known as the Democratic Union was the name of a series of liberal political parties that existed in succession in the State of S ...

on 7 December 1919. It aimed towards a specific

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as a third position between

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and

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. Its leader was

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's mayor

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and they won two seats in the

1920 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes Constitutional Assembly election Constitutional Assembly elections were held in the recently proclaimed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later renamed Yugoslavia) on 28 November 1920. The election was held in the context of political debate over the degree of centralisa ...

. The Party closely cooperated with the Czechoslovak National Socialist Party in

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, and during the 1927 elections with the Yugoslav Independent Democratic Party. It advocated Slovenian autonomy within a federalized

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