Direction - Social Democracy, commonly called Smer, is a left-wing populist and left-wing nationalist political party in Slovakia that identifies as social-democratic and is led by its founder, Robert Fico. Fico founded it in 1999 as a split from the post-communist Party of the Democratic Left, and it first defined itself as the Third Way party. It added Social Democracy to its name after merging with several minor centre-left parties in 2005. It has dominated Slovak politics since 2006, leading three coalition governments and one single-party government from 2012 to 2016, and Smer-led governments have been associated with several corruption scandals.
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Direction, Social Democracy (Slovak: Smer, sociálna demokracia), also commonly referred to as Smer, is a left-wing populist and left-wing nationalist political party
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Founded by Fico in 1999 as a split
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He founded the left-wing political party Direction
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Slovakia is a parliamentary democratic republic
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