Liberalism in Slovakia

History

From Independent Hungarian Initiative to Hungarian Civic Party

• 1989: Hungarian liberals establish the Independent Hungarian Initiative
• 1992: The party is renamed the Hungarian Civic Party
• 1998: The party merged into the Hungarian Coalition Party

  From Alliance of Democrats to Democratic Union of Slovakia

• 1993: Dissidents from the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia established the Alliance of Democrats of the Slovak Republic, led by Milan Kňažko
• 1994: The party merged with a second dissident group, the Alliance for Political Realism, into the Democratic Union of Slovakia
• 2002: The party merged into the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union

  Alliance of the New Citizen

• 2001: Liberals around Pavol Rusko established the Alliance of the New Citizen
• 2007-2009: End of the activity

  Freedom and Solidarity

• 2009, March: Liberals around the economist Richard Sulík established the Freedom and Solidarity, which is the ideological successor of the Alliance of the New Citizen.