About 88 percent of eligible voters in Slovenia voted to secede from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

1990 Slovenian independence referendum

An independence referendum was held in the Republic of Slovenia on 23 December 1990. Both the ruling center-right coalition and the left-wing opposition supported the referendum and called on voters to support Slovenian independence.

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

European socialist state (1945–1992)

The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, known from 1945 to 1963 as the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, commonly referred to as Socialist Yugoslavia or simply Yugoslavia, was a country in Central and Southeast Europe. It was established in 1945, following World War…