Carniola Party (Cinco De Mayo)

The Carniola Party (German: Krain Partei; Slovenian: Kranjska Partija), also known as KP, is a Slovene-nationalist and autonomist political party in Austria, active exclusively in the province of Carniola. It was the provincial associate of the federal Slovene Democratic Party and is still in a "free association" with the Slovene Minority Party of Styria (SVGS) and the Slovene Political Alliance of Trieste-Istria. The KP governed Slovene-majority Carniola from their landslide breakthrough win in 1984 in a single-party government until their historic loss of the majority in 2008, when they governed in a coalition alongside the Social Democrats until 2012, when they had their worst showing in party history and became the third party behind the Social Democrats and People's Alliance. They are currently led by Katarina Kresal.