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Events in the year 2019 in Slovakia .
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.
The president of the Slovak Republic is the head of state of Slovakia and the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces. The president is directly elected by the people for five years, and can be elected for a maximum of two consecutive terms. The presidency is largely 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.
Robert Fico is a Slovak politician who served as the prime minister of Slovakia from 2006 to 2010 and from 2012 to 2018. He has been the first leader of the Direction – Social Democracy (Smer) party since 1999. First elected to Parliament in 1992, he was later appointed to the Council of Europe. Following his party's victory in the 2006 parliamentary election, he formed the first Fico Cabinet.
Maroš Šefčovič is a Slovak diplomat and politician serving as Vice-President of the European Commission for Interinstitutional Relations since 2019, previously holding the office from 2010 to 2014. As of 2023, he also serves as Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for the European Green Deal and on an acting basis as European Commissioner for Climate Action. He has been member of the European Commission since 2009. Šefčovič also stood for office in the 2019 Slovak presidential election, which he lost against Zuzana Čaputová.
Igor Matovič is a Slovak politician and former businessman. He previously served as Deputy Prime Minister of Slovakia and Minister of Finance from April 2021 to December 2022 and Prime Minister from March 2020 to March 2021.
Peter Colotka was a Slovak academic, lawyer and politician. He was the Prime Minister of the Slovak Socialist Republic from 1969 to 1988.
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.
Andrej Danko is a Slovak politician who has been Speaker of the National Council of the Slovak Republic from 2016 to 2020 and Chairman of the Slovak National Party since 2012.
Parliamentary elections were held in Slovakia on 29 February 2020 to elect all 150 members of the National Council.
Presidential elections were held in Slovakia in March 2019. Incumbent President Andrej Kiska did not run for a second term.
Progressive Slovakia is a liberal and social-liberal political party in Slovakia established in 2017. The party is led by Vice President of the European Parliament Michal Šimečka. It is a member of the Renew Europe group and is a full member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party. PS has three MEPs: Michal Šimečka, Martin Hojsík, and Michal Wiezik ; Wiezik left the EPP group and Spolu to join PS. Zuzana Čaputová, incumbent President of Slovakia, co-founder and former deputy leader of Progressive Slovakia, was nominated by the party in the 2019 Slovak presidential election, and won by standing for the anti-corruption, environmental and pro-European program. In the National Council, it is represented by deputy Tomáš Valášek elected for For the People, which he left in 2021. In local politics, PS has a dominant position in Bratislava, cooperating with Team Bratislava and Freedom and Solidarity.
Zuzana Čaputová is a Slovak politician, lawyer and environmental activist. She is the fifth president of Slovakia, a position she has held since 15 June 2019. Čaputová is 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 inauguration of Zuzana Čaputová was held on Saturday 15 June 2019 at 11:45 AM in the Slovak Philharmonic in Bratislava the capital of Slovakia. It took place during a solemn session of the National Council, the highest law-making institution in Slovakia. Čaputová assumed office by taking an oath on the constitution and into the hands of the Chief Justice of The Constitutional Court of Slovakia, Ivan Fiačan.
Za sklom is a Slovak police procedural television series created by a program director of TV JOJ Roland Kubina and produced by DNA Production. Series, which is inspired by real life, debuted on 28 September 2016 and tells the story of two elite cops who eventually find themselves on the opposite side of the law.
Life – National Party, formerly known as Christian Democracy – Life and Prosperity - Alliance for Slovakia, is a far right Christian political party in Slovakia.
The Tree of Peace Memorial Plaque is the highest award awarded since 2019 by the Slovak non-governmental organization Servare et Manere. The award was first awarded on December 4, 2019 on the occasion of planting Tree of Peace by Zuzana Čaputová, President of Slovakia at Brokwood cemetery in United Kingdom.
The Cabinet of Eduard Heger was the 12th government of Slovakia, led by Prime Minister Eduard Heger. It was originally a four-party majority coalition government composed of Ordinary People and Independent Personalities (OĽaNO), We Are Family, Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) and For the People. Following a coalition crisis in summer 2022, SaS left the government, which resulted in a minority government.
Presidential elections will be held in Slovakia no later than April 2024 according to the Constitution of Slovakia. The first round of the last presidential election was held on 16 March 2019, so the next election is expected to be held on 17 March 2024. It may, however, be held earlier under exceptional circumstances such as the resignation or death of the President.
A constitutional referendum was held in Slovakia on 21 January 2023.
The Democrats, during 2018 – 2023 known as TOGETHER – Civic Democracy and later the Blue Coalition, is a Slovak political party founded in 2018 by Miroslav Beblavý. The party has changed leadership multiple times and is led by the former prime minister of Slovakia Eduard Heger since 7 March 2023.
