liberal party (, ls) is a political party in slovakia founded on 28 march 2003 by dissident parliamentarians who split from vladimír mečiar's movement for a democratic slovakia (hzds). the party was founded under the name people's union ("ľudová únia") and renamed itself to 'liberal party' on 26 march 2007. from 2003 to 2006 the party had mps in the slovak parliament (elected on the hzds ticket), since 2006 the party is extra-parliamentary. ls runs on a conservative and populist platform.