Civic Conservative Party
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The Civic Conservative Party (in Slovak: Občianska konzervatívna strana, OKS) is the Slovak liberal-conservative party.
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[edit] Issues
The party advocates respect for people regardless of their religion, race and nationality. Their aim is to pursue conservative values stemming from the inner need of individuals to live in a world whose highest value is personal freedom tempered by personal responsibility and an awareness of personal obligations towards society.
The OKS characterizes itself as a party of reforms. According to its platform, it rejects:
- all kinds of social engineering
- totalitarianism and autocracy
- historical, as well as current value relativism.
It respects the historical memory as a part of the national cultural identity and thus rejects lining up behind autocracy, communism and fascism.
The stated aim of the OKS is to pursue the system of European conservative values such as consistency, veracity, fairness, honesty, respectability, solidarity, and observance of written and non-written treaties and agreements.
Some of reforms in present-day Slovakia are based on OKS's ideas.
[edit] Members
The OKS is said to be a party of intellectuals. Some of its critics say that the party is unable to win support of ordinary people because of that. OKS's current leader are František Šebej, Peter Osuský, Ondrej Dostál, Tibor Takáč and Peter Zajac. Peter Tatár and Mária Drímalová are among the other important members.
[edit] Elections
The Civic Conservative Party was formed relatively shortly before the Slovak parliamentary election, 2002, and it gained 9,422 votes which represented 0,32% share of the total vote.
In Slovak local authority election, 2002, there were 2 mayors elected for OKS nationwide. In addition, OKS took 20 deputy seats, which represented 0,09% share in the whole country.
The OKS supported František Mikloško, a candidate of the Christian Democratic Movement in the presidential elections of 2004. Mikloško was one of the few candidates not being former members of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. Mikloško ended up fifth with total of 129,414 votes representing 6,51% share of the total vote.
In the European Parliament election, 2004 (Slovakia), Peter Osuský was the only candidate on the party list. He received 7,016 votes, which meant 1% share nationwide.
The party also ran in Slovak regional elections of 2005, gaining a total of three seats, two in Bratislava self-governing region and one in Žilina self-governing region. Together, it represented 0,72% share in Slovak Republic.
OKS offered to run on the common candidate list with the Christian Democratic Movement (KDH), but since this offer was turned down by KDH, civic conservatives had to raise 500,000 Slovak korún required as a fee in order to be able for the party to participate in the parliamentary election, which took place in June 2006.
In March 2006, OKS member Ondrej Dostál applied to the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic, considering the possible unconstitutionality of the election participation fee, saying the fee affects his right to run for office.
Former Chairman of the Czechoslovak Constitutional Court Ernest Valko and former Minister of Health of the Slovak Republic Rudolf Zajac appeared on the party's candidate list.
OKS obtained 6,262 votes which represented 0,27% share of the total vote in the Slovak parliamentary election, 2006.
[edit] Recent Developments
Civic Conservative Party also stood for the elections to the bodies of self-governing regions in 2005, winning seats in few districts.
