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Flag of the Slovene National Party - Image by Tomislav Todorović & Željko Heimer, 28 October 2006
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The Slovene National Party (SNS) was founded in 1991 and its Constitution was adopted in 1995 and amended in 1998 and 2000.
Tomislav Todorović, 28 October 2006
The flag of the Slovene National Party is described in Article 8 of the party Constitution:
SNS has a flag which consists of two equally large rectangular fields in yellow and blue colours. On yellow field is the coat of arms with the Karantanian hat - the coat of arms of the Slovene March. In case that the flag described above becams the state flag, SNS will not use it any longer.
Karantania was the oldest state of the Slovenes, which lasted from VIIth to Xth century, having comprised parts of present-day Austria and Slovenia. The Slovene March (Slovene, Slovenska Krajina; German, Windischen Mark), whose coat of arms appears on the flag of SNS, was a medieval estate in present-day Slovenia (the area nowadays known as Dolenjsko) and later became the part of the Duchy of Carniola. Its full achievement of arms can be seen at the International Civic Heraldry website.
The only image of the party flag currently available on the Web can be seen at the party website. It is a yellow and light blue horizontal bicolour, with the coat of arms in the canton: on the yellow field, a Slovene national hat in black and red; the shield is distinguished from the yellow stripe by a black fimbriation. A very similar flag was proposed for the national flag of Slovenia in 1990 in the magazine Prijatelj, the differences being in a much darker shade of blue and silver field of the coat of arms instead of yellow - that is certainly the reason for mentioning the possibility of abandoning the party flag if such design happens to be adopted for the national flag.
Tomislav Todorović, 28 October 2006