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Party of Slovenian Nation (Political party, Slovenia)

Stranka slovenskega naroda - SSN

Official flag of SSN, as used (left) and as prescribed (right) - Images by Eugene Ipavec, 27 June 2010

Presentation of SSN
Flags of SSN
Emblem of SSN

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Presentation of SSN

The Party of the Slovenian Nation (Stranka slovenskega naroda, SSN) is a minor nationalist party, founded in 2002. In the 2008 parliamentary elections it won 2,629 votes, for 0.25% of the total and zero seats.

The party pitches itself as a "moderate" nationalist alternative, although it seems to me that it was in all likelihood founded simply as a vehicle for a revolt by disgruntled ex-Slovenian National Party cadres against SNS leader Zmago Jelinčič (a notable part of the SSN website is devoted to libeling him). The name "Party of the Slovenian Nation" is superficially almost identical to that of Jelinčič's Slovenian National Party, but the word narod has subtly different connotations from nacija, meaning "ethnic group" as opposed to nation-statehood.

Eugene Ipavec, 27 June 2010

Flags of SSN

Official flag of SSN

The flag is described in the party's Statutes, adopted on 8 May 2008, as follows:

The Party of the Slovenian Nation (SSN) has sought a flag with roots in Slovenian national heritage. SSN is represented by two flags, an official flag and an organizational flag (logotype).

The first is the official flag of the party, whose choice and distribution of colors take as a model the Slovenian national tricolor, originating from the mid 19th century, with which many Slovenian generations have identified and fought below, for more than a century and a half.

Flag
The SSN uses a white-blue-red Slovenian national flag with the black panther coat of arms. The ratio between the width and height of the flag is three to two. The colors of the flag are in order: white, blue and red. Each color occupies one third of the width of the flag. In the geometric center of the flag is the oldest Slovenian coat of arms, the black panther, a symbol of good (in the ethical sense of good and evil). The black panther originates in the period of Slovenian-Carantanian culture, but was even then considered "ancient"; as its origin clearly predates all known records, it is considered the oldest original Slovenian symbol.
The coat of arms in the middle of the flag extends over the entire blue field, with one third into the white field, and with a third into the red field. The coat of arms consists of a pointed heraldic late-gothic shield, white, with a black border containing a white trim and in the center of the shield a black panther facing to the left.

Color specifications
- White: CMYK 0-0-0-0;
- Blue: CMYK 100-60-0-10;
- Red: CMYK 0-100-100-0;
- Black: CMYK 0-0-0-100.

The specifications in the statutes give proportions of 2:3, but both the illustration on the same page and all of the actual flags I've seen in photos are with proportions 1:2.

Eugene Ipavec, 27 June 2010

Organizational flag of SSN

Organizational flag of SSN - Image by Eugene Ipavec, 27 June 2010

Quoting the party's statutes:

In public and before the media the SSN is represented by its second flag (its logotype), under which it conducts business. The logotype also appears on voters' lists and ballots.

Flag
The color of this flag is sky-blue, bordered with a white frame of a width of 3.3% of the length of the flag, symbolizing peace and opposed to violence and war. In the geometric center of the flag is the logotype with the Prince's Stone, which represents the ancient Slovenian (Carantanian) democracy, expressed in the installation of the Dukes of Carantania. Along with the false Athenian democracy of ancient Greece, the Slovenian democracy was the first, original democratic organization of society, where the power is in the hands of the people (narod) and where all types of holders of power are obliged to serve the people rather than rule them! Slovenian democracy developed in Slovenian society more than 1000 years before its modern origins in the time of the French Revolution. SSN is a democratic, ethnic party, which fully identifies with the values of the Slovenian nation, known and cultivated a millennium ago by our ancestors!
The logotype of the SSN in the middle of the flag is the size of two-thirds the length of the flag and consists of the Prince's Stone. to the right of which there stand three capital letters "SSN". Under the capitals, after an interval the length of one line, the name of the party is written in capital letters, "PARTY [of the] SLOVENIAN NATION", the combination of both together equaling the height of the Prince's Stone. The font used is CopprplGoth.

Color specifications
- Sky Blue: CMYK 40-0-0-0;
- Prince's Stone (multicolored);
- White: CMYK 0-0-0-0;
- Blue: CMYK 100-66-0-2;
- Red: CMYK 0-100-100-0;
- Black: CMYK 0-0-0-100.

No proportions are given for the flag, but it is illustrated as 1:2, and the real-world articles appear to comply.

Organizational flag of SSN, variant - Image by Eugene Ipavec, 27 June 2010

A third, unprescribed flag - a simplification of the organizational flag) appears to be in proportions 2:3.

Eugene Ipavec, 27 June 2010

Panther flag used by SSN

Ex oficio the party also uses the black-panther-on-white banner of arms, lately the generic flag of Slovene nationalism.

Eugene Ipavec, 27 June 2010

Blue panther flag used by SSN

Blue panther flag - Image by Eugene Ipavec, 30 June 2010

The SSN briefly used yet another flag (photo, in Mladina, May 2004) early in its history, a sort of Canadian pale, blue-white-blue, with a blue panther in the center panel.

Eugene Ipavec, 30 June 2010

Emblem of SSN

The party's symbol is a photorealistic image of the "Prince's Stone", an ancient Roman column capital (now kept at Maria Saal near Klagenfurt, Austria). The stone was used in the Middle Ages as the centerpiece of the enthronement ceremony of the Dukes of Carantania, and later Carinthia. Unlike the late-medieval black panther, the ceremony was a genuine holdover from the original Slavic principality of Carantania (aborbed by the Franks in 745) and thus a rare thread of historic connection to what is otherwise a largely lost Carantanian past.

Eugene Ipavec, 27 June 2010