Freedom and Solidarity (Slovak: Sloboda a Solidarita, SaS),[4] also called Saska,[5] is a centre-right political party in Slovakia.

The party holds civil libertarian positions including support for drug liberalisation, same-sex marriage,[13] and LGBT rights,[14] and advocates economically liberal policies rooted in the ideas of the Austrian School.

[19] It became part of the four-party centre-right coalition government, holding four cabinet positions, with Sulík elected the Speaker of the National Council.

[22] After securing the 10,000 signatures required to found a party, SaS made its public debut in February 2009,[23] ahead of the 2009 European Parliament election on 6 June.

[citation needed] With others, Sulík was approached by Declan Ganley to join the Libertas.eu alliance of Eurosceptic parties for the European elections but turned down the invitation in order to remain independent.

While he was also a sceptic of the Lisbon Treaty and more generally a critic of European intransparency and bureaucracy, he did not share the isolationist position of Libertas.

The demands included downsizing the Slovak parliament from 150 to 100 MPs, scrapping their immunity from criminal prosecution and limits to be placed on the public finances spent on government officials' cars.

Furthermore, they demanded that the radio and television market should be further liberalized, abolishing concessionary fees, and public officials' right to comment and reply to media coverage should be removed from the press law.

SaS forwarded the signatures to the Slovak president Ivan Gašparovič, requesting him to schedule the referendum for the date of the parliamentary election on 12 June 2010.

During the negotiations, Igor Matovič, one of the four MPs elected on the SaS list from the Ordinary People faction, alleged that he had been offered a bribe to destabilise the talks, prompting Sulík to make a formal complaint to the prosecutor.

[57] In the 2010 parliamentary election, the party emphasised that it had economic policies completely opposed to those of Fico's First Cabinet and ruled out cooperating with him.

[58] SaS is notably civil libertarian, being the only major party to campaign for same-sex marriage or for the decriminalisation of cannabis,[55] which put it at odds with its socially conservative past coalition partner, the Christian Democratic Movement (KDH).

[68] Sulík has also been a loud critic of the mandatory refugee relocation EU programme,[69] as well as further European integration at the expense of nation-states.