The Conservative Democrats of Slovakia (, KDS) is a defunct Slovak political party established by four MPs (Frantià ¡ek Mikloà ¡ko, VladimÃÂr Palko, Rudolf Bauer and Pavol Minárik) who belonged to the Christian Democratic Movement, but left it on 21 February 2008 over disagreements with the party leader.
Members of the preparatory committee of KDS were VladimÃÂr Palko, Frantià ¡ek Mikloà ¡ko, VladimÃÂr PÃÂolinský, Pavol Minárik, Rudolf Bauer and the press spokesman of the planned party was Jaroslav Danià ¡ka.
The party was established in July 2008. VladimÃÂr Palko became its chairman.
In 2014, the party was dissolved following Rudolf BauerâÂÂs failure in the Koà ¡ice mayoral elections.
In the 2009 European Parliament elections KDS formed a coalition with Civic Conservative Party (OKS). KDS-OKS coalition signed a cooperation agreement with Declan GanleyâÂÂs pan-European Eurosceptic movement Libertas in Bratislava on 15 May 2009. Libertas supported the KDSâÂÂOKS candidates in the elections to the European Parliament. Lead candidate of coalition list was VladimÃÂr Palko.
The coalition received only 2.1% of the vote and won no seats.
KDS announced that Frantià ¡ek Mikloà ¡ko would contest the 2009 presidential election. Mikloà ¡ko received 5.41% of the vote.
KDS did not contest the 2010 parliamentary elections, citing the partyâÂÂs financial problems.
In the 2014 European Parliament elections, KDS ran in a three-party coalition with the parties NOVA and the Civic Conservative Party (OKS). The coalition received 6,83% of the vote and won one seat.