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".
Monika Beňová is a Slovak politician who has been a member of the European Parliament since 2004. She is a member of the centre-left Direction-Social Democracy party SMER-SD. SMER-SD is a member of the Party of European Socialists. She presently serves on the Committee on the Environment,Public Health and Food Safety. At the same time she serves as a Quaestor of the European Parliament and therefore she is a member of the European Parliament's Bureau. In present she has opposite views as her mother party - Smer,for example on European Union,NATO,LGBTQ rights in Slovakia,conflict in Ukraine and so on.
Pavol Hrušovský is a former Slovak politician,who served as the speaker of the National Council of the Slovak Republic from 15 October 2002 to 7 February 2006 and party leader of the Christian Democratic Movement (2000–2009).
Pavol Paška was a Slovak politician who served as Speaker of the National Council of the Slovak Republic from 2006 to 2010 and again from 2012 to 2014. He was a member of the Direction –Social Democracy (Smer-SD) party.
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.
ĽubošBlaha is a Slovak politician,academic,post-Marxist philosopher and political scientist. He is a member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic,a presidium member of the left-wing populist party Direction –Slovak Social Democracy and Robert Fico's foreign-policy aide. Blaha has served as a Member of the European Parliament since 2024,having previously served as an MP of the National Council of Slovakia from 2012 to 2024.
Martin Poliačik is a Slovak expert on communication and critical thinking. From 2010 to 2020,he was a member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic. He is one of the founding members of the liberal party Progressive Slovakia. He previously co-founded the political party Freedom and Solidarity,which he left in November 2017 due to disagreements with its chairman,Richard Sulík. He studied systematic philosophy in Trnava,Slovakia,and prior to politics,he was a teacher at a Montessori school in Bratislava. From 2003 to 2006,he led the Slovak Debating Association as its executive director. Together with Linda Lančová,he wrote the book "Order in the Head ."
Jana Vaľová is a politician of the Slovak Republic. She has been a member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic,a district chairperson of the social-democratic political party Direction –Social Democracy,and Mayor of Humenné.
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.
Prof. PhDr. Zuzana Beňušková,CSc. is a Slovak ethnologist,ethnographer,cultural and social anthropologist. She is a professor of ethnology at University of Constantine the Philosopher in Nitra. Her fields of research are ethnic minorities,social relations,customs,cultural regions of Slovakia and history of ethnology.
Ivan Štefanec is a Slovak politician and business manager,former member of the Slovak Parliament and current member of the European Parliament for Christian Democratic Movement.
The following lists events that happened during 2015 in Slovakia.
Progressive Slovakia is a liberal and social-liberal political party in Slovakia established in 2017. The party is led by Michal Šimečka,a former Vice President of the European Parliament. 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 currently has 6 MEPs:Ľudovít Ódor,Veronika CifrováOstrihoňová,Martin Hojsík,Michal Wiezik,Ľubica Karvašová,and Lucia Yar.
Milan Uhrík is a Slovak politician,MEP and the leader of the Republic Movement. A former non-inscrit,he is now a part of the ESN group in the European Parliament. He is a former deputy of the National Council of the Slovak Republic for the far-right People's Party Our Slovakia (ĽSNS) and member of the Foreign Committee of the Slovak Republic.
Voice –Social Democracy,is a social democratic and populist political party in Slovakia. It was founded in 2020 by dissidents from Direction –Social Democracy (Smer) led by former prime minister Peter Pellegrini. In October 2022,it was admitted as an associate member of the Party of European Socialists (PES),although its membership was later suspended in October 2023.
Miroslav Beblavý is a Slovak investor,startup founder,economist,author and former politician. He is currently CEO of CB ESPRI,an impact investment fund,CEO of Zhiva,a behavioral health startup,and adjunct professor at Sciences Po. Between 2010 and 2020,he served three terms as an MP of the National Council of Slovakia. Between 2002 and 2006,he held the post of state secretary at the Ministry of Labor,Social Affairs and Family. He was also the chairman of the Together –Civic Democracy party in the 2018-2020 period,co-leading the unsuccessful election coalition with Progressive Slovakia in the 2020 Slovak parliamentary election. He also worked as Senior Research Fellow at Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels (2010-2019).
Ján Podmanický is a Slovak politician. He has served as a member of the National Council and Mayor of StaráBystrica,respectively since 2003 and 2006.
MatúšŠutaj Eštok is a Slovak politician who has served as the Minister of Interior of Slovakia since 2023. He was an MP of the National Council.
Erik Tomáš is a Slovak politician and former television presenter. Since October 2023,he has served as the minister of labor,social affairs and family of Slovakia. Tomášwas a member of the National Council of Slovakia from 2016 until 2023,and state secretary at the ministry of Education in 2016.
Peter Kmec is a Slovak diplomat and politician who has served as the Deputy Prime Minister for European Funding of Slovakia since 2023.
