Slovaks Forward ( sk, Slováci vpred; sr-cyrl, Словаци напред, Slovaci napred, SN) is a
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 ...
in
Serbia
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representing the
Slovak national minority. Its leader is
Pavel Surovi. The party is aligned with
Aleksandar Vučić
Aleksandar Vučić ( sr-Cyrl, Александар Вучић, ; born 5 March 1970) is a Serbian politician serving as the president of Serbia since 2017, and as the president of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) since 2012.
Vučić serv ...
and the
Serbian Progressive Party
The Serbian Progressive Party ( sr-cyrl, Српска напредна странка, Srpska napredna stranka, SNS) has been the ruling political party of Serbia since 2012.
Founded by Tomislav Nikolić and Aleksandar Vučić in 2008 as a ...
(''Srpska napredna stranka'', SNS).
Slovak National Council
Slovaks Forward won nine out of twenty-nine seats in Serbia's 2014 Slovak National Council election and eight seats in the 2018 election. Surovi was chosen as council vice-president after the 2018 election, although he was removed from this role in February 2021.
Vojvodina provincial politics
Slovaks Forward was registered as a political party in late 2015. It joined the
Serbian Progressive Party
The Serbian Progressive Party ( sr-cyrl, Српска напредна странка, Srpska napredna stranka, SNS) has been the ruling political party of Serbia since 2012.
Founded by Tomislav Nikolić and Aleksandar Vučić in 2008 as a ...
's electoral alliance for the
2016 Vojvodina provincial election
Provincial elections were held in Vojvodina on 24 April 2016.
Electoral system
The 120 members of the Assembly are elected by proportional representation in a single provincial constituency with a 5% electoral threshold, although the threshold i ...
; Surovi was included on the Progressive Party's
electoral list
An electoral list is a grouping of candidates for election, usually found in proportional or mixed electoral systems, but also in some plurality electoral systems. An electoral list can be registered by a political party (a party list) or can ...
in the thirty-third position and was elected when the list won a majority victory with sixty-three out of 120 mandates. He was promoted to the fifteenth position on the Progressive list in the
2020 provincial election and was re-elected when the list won an increased majority with seventy-six mandates. As of 2021, Surovi is the sole representative of his party in the assembly. He sits in caucus with the Progressive Party's ''
Aleksandar Vučić – For Our Children'' parliamentary group.
Surovi was confirmed for a new term as party leader in December 2019.
СТРАНКА 'СЛОВАЦИ НАПРЕД!' Сурови поново на челу партије"
''Dnevnik'', 23 December 2019, accessed 8 February 2021.
References
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2015 establishments in Serbia
Slovak political parties in Serbia
Political parties established in 2015
Politics of Vojvodina