The Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovene: Slovenska demokratska stranka, SDS), known until 2003 as the Social Democratic Party of Slovenia (Socialdemokratska stranka Slovenije) is conservative political party in Slovenia. It is led by Janez Janša, the Prime Minister-designate of Slovenia, and is currently the largest coalition party in Slovenia. SDS won 26.19% of the vote at the early 2011 Slovenian parliamentary election on 4 December 2011, thus gaining 26 seats in the National Assembly.
The SDS is one of the two largest parties in Slovenia, along with the centre-left opposition party Positive Slovenia. The SDS is the second-largest party in the National Assembly, with 26 MPs (28.8% of the total) as of the 2011 election. In the 2009 European Parliament election, it obtained 26.7% of the votes, which yielded three seats out of eight from Slovenia. The SDS is a member of the European People's Party (EPP) and its MEPs sit in the EPP Group in the European parliament.
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