OĽaNO and Friends (), officially OĽaNO and Friends: Ordinary People (OĽaNO), Independent Candidates (NEKA), NOVA, Free and Responsible, Pačivale Roma, Magyar szívek and Christian Union and For the People (), is a conservative political coalition in Slovakia established on 26 May 2023.
History On 26 May 2023 Ordinary People and Independent Personalities leader Igor Matovič announced the creation of the OĽaNO and Friends coalition through the legal renaming of the OĽaNO party. The coalition initially included OĽaNO, NOVA, Free and Responsible, Roma and Hungarian platforms, and a platform of bipartisan candidates. On 2 July 2023, the parties Christian Union and For the People parties joined the coalition. The parties ran with a single list for the parliamentary elections on 30 September 2023. The coalition obtained 8.9% of the votes for a total of 16 seats, significantly worse than the result obtained by the previous OĽaNO-led coalition in the 2020 election.
Members Name Ideology Position Leader MPs MEPs Slovakia Movement Populism Centre-right Igor Matovič Christian Union Christian right Right-wing Milan Krajniak For the People Liberal conservatism Centre-right Veronika Remišová
Election results National Council Election Leader Votes %Rank Seats+/–Government2023Igor Matovič264,1378.9 5thNew
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