New Slovenia – Christian Democrats (, NSi) is a Christian democratic and conservative
Since 2004
From 2004 to 2008, New Slovenia was part of the 8th Government of Slovenia, a centre-right coalition led by Prime Minister Janez Janša of the Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS).
The first European Parliament election with Slovenian participation in 2004 was won by New Slovenia which received 24% of the votes and secured two of the seven Slovenian seats.
At the 2008 legislative elections, the party won only 3.4% of the popular vote and did not win any seats in the 90-seat National Assembly. After the elective failure of 2008, Bajuk announced his immediate resignation and retirement from politics. Ljudmila Novak succeeded him as party president.
At the 2011 Slovenian parliamentary election on 4 December 2011, it won 4.9% of votes, thus gaining four seats in the National Assembly.
In the 2014 European election, NSi ran in a joint electoral list with the Slovenian People's Party, which received 16.6% of the vote and came in second place, returning 2 MEPs.
The party received 5.5% of the vote in the Slovenian parliamentary election on 13 July 2014, and won five seats in parliament.
At the 2018 Parliamentary election, NSi received 7.2% of electoral votes, which resulted in seven parliamentary seats. The party was in opposition until March 2020, when it entered a centre-right coalition with the SDS, Modern Centre Party and Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia.
NSi's Ljudmila Novak was elected as one of eight MEPs of Slovenia at the 2019 European election.
In the 2022 parliamentary election, NSi secured 6.9% of the vote, gaining eight seats in the National Assembly. It is currently in opposition.
Ideology
New Slovenia has taken a Christian conservative position on some issues, advocating traditional social values and defending the position of the Catholic Church on moral questions. The party is based on social conservatism, and has also been opposed to same-sex marriage and adoption by same sex couples, although it supported and voted for now-defunct legislation that granted limited rights to registered same-sex partnerships.
In economic issues, it is generally liberal, but it defends a social market economy. It is a pro-European party.
Young Slovenia
Young Slovenia (, ) is the youth wing of the Nova Slovenija party. It is a youth organization that promotes and prepares young people for active participation in society based on the values of Christian democracy and advocates for the interests of young people. It brings together young people aged 15 to 32. It is a member of the Slovenian Youth Council (MSS) and, at the international level, a full member of YEPP (the youth wing of the European People's Party) and Junge Alpenregion. Young Slovenia was founded on 21 April 2001. Its most notable action has been the initiative to assess the constitutionality of the proposal to name a street after Josip Broz – Tito. On 4 October 2011, the Constitutional Court ruled that the decision of the Urban Municipality of Ljubljana to name a street after Tito was unconstitutional and violated the principle of respect for human dignity.
Election results
National Assembly
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! Election
! Leader
! Votes
! %
! Seats
! +/–
! Status
|-
! 2000
| rowspan=3 |Andrej Bajuk
| 93,247
| 8.66 (#6)
|
| 8
|
|-
! 2004
| 88,073
| 9.09 (#4)
|
| 1
|
|-
! 2008
| 35,774
| 3.40 (#8)
|
| 9
|
|-
! rowspan="2" | 2011
| rowspan="3" | Ljudmila Novak
| rowspan="2" | 53,758
| rowspan="2" | 4.88 (#7)
| rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" | 4
|
|-
|
|-
! 2014
| 48,846
| 5.59 (#6)
|
| 1
|
|-
! rowspan="2" | 2018
| rowspan="3" | Matej Tonin
| rowspan="2" | 63,792
| rowspan="2" | 7.16 (#6)
| rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" | 2
|
|-
|
|-
! 2022
| 81,794
| 6.86 (#3)
|
| 1
|
|-
|-
! 2026
| Jernej Vrtovec
| 109,201
| 9.26 (#3)
|
| 1
|
|-
|}
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European Parliament
{|class=wikitable style="text-align: center;"
|-
! Election
! List leader
! Votes
! %
! Seats
! +/–
! EP Group
|-
! 2004
| rowspan=3 | Lojze Peterle
| 123,563
| 23.57 (#1)
|
| New
| EPP-ED
|-
! 2009
| 76,866
| 16.58 (#3)
|
| 1
| rowspan=4 | EPP
|-
! 2014
| 66,760
| 16.60 (#2)
|
| 0
|-
! 2019
| Ljudmila Novak
| 53,621
| 11.12 (#4)
|
| 0
|-
! 2024
| Matej Tonin
| 51,277
| 7.59 (#5)
|
| 0
|}
Presidential
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! rowspan=2 | Election
! rowspan=2 | Candidate
! colspan=2 | 1st round
! colspan=2 | 2nd round
! rowspan=2 | Result
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! Votes
! %
! Votes
! %
|-
! 2017
| align=left| Ljudmila Novak
| 54,437
| 7.24
| bgcolor=lightgrey colspan=2|
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|-
! 2022
| align=left| Janez Cigler Kralj
| 38,113
| 4.37
| bgcolor=lightgrey colspan=2|
|
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Prominent members
- Andrej Bajuk (deceased in 2011)
- Lojze Peterle
- Ljudmila Novak
- Lovro Šturm
- Jure Zupan
- Mojca Kucler Dolinar
- Janez Drobnič (left the party in 2008)
- Andrej Capuder
- Matej Tonin