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Modern Centre Party (Stranka modernega centra, SMC) was founded on
2014-06-02 as the Miro Cerar's Party (Stranka Mira Cerarja) and renamed
on 2015-03-07. A liberal political party, it was initially named after its
founder and first president, Miroslav "Miro" Cerar, a law professor and legal
advisor to Slovenian parliament. With a rapidly rising popularity, SMC emerged
as the strongest contestant in the parliamentary election on 2014-07-13, only
six weeks after it was founded, eventually forming a coalition government with
Cerar as the Prime Minister. On 2014-11-21, the SMC was admitted as a full
member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE). At the
parliamentary elections on 2018-06-03, the party had much worse results, still
remaining in the coalition government, with Cerar as the deputy Prime Minister
and Minister of Foreign Affairs this time. Poor results of the SMC in the May
2019 European Parliament election prompted Cerar to step down from the position
of party president, but was elected the honorary president, which he remained
until 2020, when he left the party due to its decision to join a new coalition
led by the right-wing populist Slovenian Democratic Party, instead of
co-operating with the centrist and moderate left parties as before; his call to
other party members to do the same was followed by several members of
parliament, who continued as the group of independents. On 2021-12-04, SMC
merged with a non-parliamentary Economic Active Party (Gospodarsko aktivna
stranka) to form a new party, named Concretely (Konkretno), thus
automatically terminating its membership in the ALDE.
Sources:
[1]
Modern Centre Party at Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Centre_Party
[2] Miro Cerar at
Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miro_Cerar
Tomislav Todorovic, 19 January 2022
The original flag of Miro Cerar's Party was white, with the abbreviation SMC
in dark blue at the hoist and the full party name in black at the fly,
inscribed in three rows and separated from the abbreviation by a black
vertical line; the shade of blue was the same as in the flags of Slovenia and
European Union [1, 2]. The design was also used as the party logo. According
to a description of the logo which could be found at the party website (no
longer online), the typeface used for the party name was Helvetica Neue 55
Roman for the word 'Stranka' and Helvetica Neue 45 Light for other two words.
Currently, only a photo of the flag with an incomplete view remains available
online [1], but its design is revealed by the photo of a table flag [2],
which used the same design rotated for 90 degrees and hung vertically.
![[Flag]](../images/s/si}smc2.gif)
image by Tomislav Todorovic, 19 January 2022
The flag and logo used by
Modern Centre Party after the renaming were essentially the same, only with
the new name in the fly, all words being lowercase and in Helvetica Neue 45
Light now [3, 4]. This was also used for the table flags in the same way as
before [5, 6].
Sources:
[1] Dnevnik newspaper website: https://www.dnevnik.si/1042672654
[2] Dolenjski list magazine website:
https://www.dolenjskilist.si/2014/09/10/120651/novice/dolenjska/SMC_v_zupanski_boj_s_Spec_Potocarjevo
(large image:
https://www.dolenjskilist.si/media/objave/slike/v/novice/2014/09/10/smc_spec_potocar_004.jpg)
[3] Nezavisne novine newspaper website:
https://www.nezavisne.com/novosti/ex-yu/Cerar-odlazi-s-cela-stranke-ali-ostaje-ministar/541986
[4] Demokracija magazine website:
https://demokracija.si/fokus/uzaljeni-cerar-zapustil-smc-ker-mu-ni-uspelo-zanetiti-upora-proti-pocivalsku/
[5] Maribor Info website:
https://mariborinfo.com/novica/lokalno/meljska-in-cesta-xiv-divizije-v-obcinsko-last-obnovo-malecniskega-mostu-bo
[6] Pigac.si website:
https://pigac.si/photo/39796
Tomislav Todorovic, 19 January 2022
