Politics of Slovakia takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic,with a multi-party system. Legislative power is vested in the parliament and it can be exercised in some cases also by the government or directly by citizens.
Rudolf Schuster is a Slovak politician,who served as the second president of Slovakia from 1999 to 2004. He was elected on 29 May 1999 and inaugurated on 15 June. In the presidential elections of April 2004,in which he sought re-election,Schuster was defeated. He received only 7.4% of the vote,with three other candidates receiving more than that. He was succeeded by Ivan Gašparovič.
The government of Czechoslovakia under Marxism–Leninism was in theory a dictatorship of the proletariat. In practice,it was a one-party dictatorship run by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia,the KSC.
Direction –Social Democracy,also commonly referred to as Smer,is a left-wing nationalist and left-wing populist political party in Slovakia led by the incumbent prime minister Robert Fico. The party identifies as social-democratic,and was described as a combination of "leftist economics and nationalist appeal".
The president of the Slovak Republic is the head of state of Slovakia and the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces. The people directly elect the president for five years,for a maximum of two consecutive terms. The presidency is essentially a ceremonial office,but the president does exercise certain limited powers with absolute discretion. The president's official residence is the Grassalkovich Palace in Bratislava.
Nathan Lincoln Hecht is the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Texas. A Republican from Dallas,Hecht was first elected to the Supreme Court in 1988 and was reelected to six-year terms in 1994,2000 and 2006. He secured his fifth six-year term on November 6,2012. He was appointed chief justice by Governor Rick Perry on September 10,2013,and was sworn into that position by retiring Chief Justice Wallace B. Jefferson on October 1,2013.
Richard Raši is a Slovak physician and politician who served as Slovakia's Deputy Prime Minister for Investments and Information. A member of the Voice –Social Democracy political party,Raši previously served as Mayor of the city of Košice. He also served from 3 June 2008 until 8 June 2010 as Minister of Health in the First cabinet of Robert Fico.
Marian Kotleba is a Slovak politician and leader of the far-right,neo-Nazi political party Kotlebists –People's Party Our Slovakia.
Andrej Kiska is a Slovak politician,entrepreneur,writer and philanthropist who served as the fourth president of Slovakia from 2014 to 2019. He ran as an independent candidate in the 2014 presidential election in which he was elected to the presidency in the second round of voting over Prime Minister Robert Fico. Kiska declined to run for a second term in 2019. He has written two books about happiness,success and his life.
Petr Pavel is a Czech politician and retired army general,currently serving as the president of the Czech Republic since March 2023. Prior to this,he held the position of Chairman of the NATO Military Committee from 2015 to 2018,and served as the Chief of the General Staff of the Czech Armed Forces between 2012 and 2015.
Peter Pellegrini is a Slovak politician who is currently serving as the sixth president of Slovakia since 2024. He previously served as prime minister of Slovakia from 2018 to 2020.
Presidential elections were held in Slovakia in March 2019. Incumbent President Andrej Kiska did not run for a second term.
Ján Kuciak was a Slovak investigative journalist. Kuciak worked as a reporter for the news website Aktuality.sk and focused mainly on investigating tax fraud of several businessmen with connections to top-level Slovak politicians. He and his fiancée,Martina Kušnírová,were assassinated on 21 February 2018 in their home in VeľkáMača,Galanta District,Slovakia.
Zuzana Čaputová is a Slovak politician,lawyer and environmental activist who served as the fifth president of Slovakia from 2019 to 2024. Čaputováwas the first woman to hold the presidency,as well as the youngest president in the history of Slovakia,elected at the age of 45.
The 2018 Slovak local elections were held on Saturday,10 November 2018,to elect deputies to municipality councils,city councils and mayors,including mayors of boroughs and members of their councils in Bratislava and Košice.
Homeland was a non-parliamentary political party in Slovakia.
Presidential elections were held in Slovakia in March and April 2024. Incumbent president Zuzana Čaputováannounced in June 2023 that she would not run for a second term.
National Coalition / Independent Candidates,formerly known as Party of Democratic Slovakia and National Coalition,is a Slovak conservative political party founded in 2014 by the former politician of the ĽS-HZDS movement Sergej Kozlík. The party profiles itself in three pillars –national,Christian and social. Since 2023,the chairman of the party has been Pavel Zacharovský. Before the 2020 parliamentary election,the National Coalition joined an electoral coalition with the far-right People's Party Our Slovakia party,but did not win any mandate in the National Council.
This is a list of notable individuals and organizations who voiced their endorsement for the office of the Slovak president,including those who subsequently retracted or withheld their endorsement of any candidate during the 2024 Slovak presidential election.
Miroslav Jureňa is a Slovak politician. From 2006 to 2007 he served as the Minister of Agriculture of Slovakia.
