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At the European Election it got 17.7% which yielded 2 seats in the European parliament out of a total 7 from Slovenia. It is a member of the European People's Party (EPP) and its MEPs sit in the EPP-ED Group. The Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) is a democratic political organisation which today associates the membership and the legal inheritance of the former Social-Democratic Union of Slovenia and the Slovenian Democratic Union - two powerful parties of the former DEMOS Coalition which, after the defeat of the communist regime in the 1990 elections, carried out the democratisation of Slovenia and led the quest for the gaining of Slovenian independence and international recognition of Slovenia. The Slovenian Democratic Union was founded in January, and the Social-Democratic Union in February 1989 . Both parties (unions) promoted from their very beginning a democratic political order, a market economy, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, respect for minority rights, and the inclusion of Slovenia in the Euro - Atlantic integrations. Both parties have, in their programs, opposed communism and favoured Slovenian independence. SDS has recently supported the agenda advanced by the Roman Catholic Church , although the Church maintained a critical attitude towards some of the party's positions (the SDS-led Government has assumed a favourable attitude towards Gambling tourism, Stem Cell research and passed a law recognizing Same-sex Civil Unions , all things opposed by the Roman Catholic Church). At the last the SDS leads a governing coalition consisting of four parties. Slovenian democratic party also combine within itself several organizations, one of them is the largest political youth organization n Slovenia, called Slovenian Democratic Youth (SDY). It has over 5.000 members, its current leader is Nikolaj Oblak . See also: Politics Of Slovenia , List Of Political Parties In Slovenia . Parliamentary representation: ImageSize = width:350 height:120 PlotArea = width:250 height:80 left:50 bottom:20 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = yyyy Period = from:0 till:32 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:4 start:0 PlotData= bar:Seats color:claret width:30 mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize:S bar:1990 from:start till:6 text:6 bar:1992 from:start till:4 text:4 bar:1996 color:pink from:start till:16 text:16 bar:2000 color:pink from:start till:14 text:14 bar:2004 color:skyblue from:start till:29 text:29 PROMINENT MEMBERS EXTERNAL LINK
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