The Position of KDH within the Slovak Party System

The main goal of this thesis is to find out if the Christian Democratic Movement is able to become a leader of the right wing parties within the Slovak party system. This question is the result of the last election in March 2012 when the former leader Slovak Christian and Democratic Union failed. The work is divided in three chapters. The first chapter analyses consolidation of the Slovak party system and classify it according to the theoretical part about party systems and conception of cleavages. The second part testifies belonging of Christian Democratic Movement to the family of Christian Democratic parties according to the evolution, membership in multinational groups and programmatic. The third chapter analyses social- demographic and value profile of Christian Democratic Movement followers, the credibility of the movement and the voter's movements between parties