Smer – sociálna demokracia

Placement: Authoritarian center-left

Direction – Social Democracy, the party of Prime Minister Robert Fico, which since 2023 has led a coalition with Hlas and the Slovak National Party, now with a very narrow majority. Welfare and capped energy prices, national sovereignty vis-à-vis Brussels, an end to state military aid to Ukraine, and traditional values enshrined in the constitution.

In short

On the traditional scale, Smer – sociálna demokracia sits in the authoritarian center-left camp. The clearest positions are on immigration: strongly towards “control”; society: strongly towards “tradition”; state: strongly towards “authority”; sovereignty: fairly towards “sovereignty”. On technology and democracy it stays balanced. Among ideologies, the closest is postliberalism (95%).