Civic Democratic Party (Slovakia)

In December 1991, the Czech Civic Democratic Party started to organise in Slovakia. The Slovak ODS was officially registered on 5 February 1992. Ľudovít Kaník became the leader of Slovak ODS. Strong influence had Iveta Radičová who was party's Press spokesperson. The Slovak ODS agreed to form a coalition with the Democratic Party, and also entered talks with the Civic Democratic Union (ODÚ) about a possible alliance, which were unsuccessful. ODS and ODÚ became rivals.^[2] The coalition of ODS and the Democratic Party ran in the 1992 parliamentary elections but failed to win any seats,^[3][4][5] which, along with the split of Czechoslovakia, led to the dissolution of Slovak ODS. In May 1993, its members established a new party called the Conservative Democratic Party (Slovak: Konzervatívna demokratická strana, KDS), whose chairman was Pavel Hagyari. KDS existed only a few months, before merging into the Democratic Party in March 1994.^[6]