Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 53. Chapters: Active Slovenia, Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators, ARNES, Association of Radio Amateurs of Slovenia, Buddhist Congregation Dharmaling, Civic List (Slovenia), Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia, Democratic Party of Slovenia, Ecologists Without Borders, Government of Slovenia, Greens of Slovenia, Hydrometeorological Institute of Slovenia, Institute for Spatial Policies, International Association for Political Science Students, International Center for Promotion of Enterprises, Kiberpipa, League of Communists of Slovenia, Liberal Democracy of Slovenia, Lipa (political party), Ljubljana Student Organisation, Ljubljana University Medical Centre, Ljubljana Matica Mountaineering Club, Military of Slovenia, Ministry of Defence (Slovenia), Ministry of the Interior (Slovenia), National Assembly (Slovenia), National Council (Slovenia), National Democratic Party (Slovenia), New Slovenia, Positive Slovenia, Radiotelevizija Slovenija, SCCA-Ljubljana, KUC Theatre, Slovene Christian Democrats, Slovene People's Party (historical), Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenian Democratic Party, Slovenian Democratic Union, Slovenian Environment Agency, Slovenian Intelligence and Security Agency, Slovenian National Party, Slovenian People's Party, Slovenian Pirate Party, Slovenian Press Agency, Slovenian Red Cross, Slovenian Territorial Defence, Slovenian Youth Theatre, Slovenska matica, Social Democrats (Slovenia), Wlan slovenija, World Rock'n'Roll Confederation, Youth Party European Greens, Zares, Zoran Jankovi List. Excerpt: The Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovene: , SDS), known until 2003 as the Social Democratic Party of Slovenia () is conservative political party in Slovenia and is led by Janez Jan a. SDS won 26.19% of the vote at the early 2011 Slovenian parliamentary election on 4 December 2011, thus gaining 26 seats in the National Assembly. The SDS is one of the two largest parties in Slovenia, along with the centre-left opposition party Positive Slovenia. The SDS is the second-largest party in the National Assembly, with 26 MPs (28.8% of the total) as of the 2011 election. In the 2009 European Parliament election, it obtained 26.7% of the votes, which yielded three seats out of eight from Slovenia. The SDS is a member of the European People's Party (EPP) and its MEPs sit in the EPP Group in the European parliament. The Slovenian Democratic Party has developed from the fusion of two distinct democratic political traditions, being the legal successor of both of the Social Democratic Union of Slovenia and the Slovenian Democratic Union, two of the most influential parties of the DEMOS coalition which defeated the former Communist Party of Slovenia in the first free elections of April 1990 and carried out the democratization of Slovenia and its secession from Yugoslavia. The Slovenian Democratic Union was founded in January 1989 and the Social Democratic Union in February of the same year, as opposition movements to the Communist Party of Slovenia which had ruled the Slovenia since 1945. From the very beginning, both parties voiced their support for the transition to a democratic and pluralistic political order, a market economy, the establishment of the rule of law and respect for human rights and fundamental political freedoms, respect for minority rights, and the inclusion of Slovenia in the Euro - Atlantic integrations (the European Union and NATO). Both parties have, in their programs, opposed communism and favoured Slovenian independence. The Slovenian Democratic Union functio