The Hlinka's Slovak People's Party (Slovak: Slovenská ľudová strana, SĽS; after 1925 Hlinka's Slovak People's Party, Slovak: Hlinkova slovenská ľudová strana, HSĽS; after 1938 Hlinka's Slovak People's Party – Party of Slovak National Unity, Slovak: Hlinkova slovenská ľudová strana – Strana slovenskej národnej jednoty, HSĽS-SSNJ) was a Slovak right-wing party and was described as nationalist group.
The party arose at a time when Slovakia was still part of Austria-Hungary, then it was one of the parties of Czechoslovakia. Together with the Slovak National Party, it was one of only two purely Slovak parties in Austria-Hungary and then in Czechoslovakia.
After a voluntary merger with other parties in November 1938 the resulting party became the dominant party of World War II Slovakia, where it was associated with the regime of Jozef Tiso.
Party chairmen were the Slovak priests Andrej Hlinka (1913–1938) and later then Jozef Tiso (1938–1945).
The main newspapers of the party were Slovenské ľudové noviny (Slovak People's Newspaper, 1910–1930) and Slovák (The Slovak, 1919–1945).
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