Slovakian far-right party facing ban

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Euro|Topics relaunched their website during 2016. Features published before that date are still available via an archive website (see related url hyperlinks).Euro|Topics reported that the far-right L'SNS founded by Marian Kotleba was facing the prospect in 2017 of becoming the first party elected to the Slovakian parliament to be banned. Kotleba's first party, Slovak Togetherness, was also banned. Legally a ban would be the right move, Slovakian journalists believed. But would that be the end of the right-wing extremists, whom current polls rank as the country's third-strongest political force?

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http://archiv.eurotopics.net/en/home/presseschau/aktuell.html http://archiv.eurotopics.net/en/home/presseschau/aktuell.html

ESO: Background information: Slovak 'neo-Nazi' wins election in Banska Bystrica (November 2013) http://www.europeansources.info/record/slovak-neo-nazi-wins-election-in-banska-bystrica/

The Democratic Society: People’s Party Our Slovakia (L’SNS) http://www.demsoc.org/2014/05/19/peoples-party-our-slovakia-lsns/

EurActiv, 26.05.17: Slovak prosecutor moves to ban far-right party http://www.euractiv.com/section/elections/news/slovak-prosecutor-moves-to-ban-far-right-party/

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