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.
Direction –Social Democracy stylized as DIRECTION –Slovak Social Democracy,also commonly referred to as Smer,is a social democratic,left-wing nationalist and left-wing populist political party in Slovakia led by the former prime minister Robert Fico.
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.
Robert Kaliňák is a Slovak politician who was the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of the Interior of Slovakia from 4 July 2006 to 12 March 2018. He is a member of the Direction –Social Democracy party. Kaliňák previously served as Minister of the Interior from 4 July 2006 to 8 July 2010. Kaliňák resigned on 12 March 2018 after the murder of Slovak journalist Ján Kuciak. He left as the longest serving minister in the history of modern Slovakia.
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,academian,post-Marxist philosopher and political scientist. He is a member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic and a presidium member of the left-wing populist party Direction –Slovak Social Democracy.
Parliamentary elections were held in Slovakia on 10 March 2012 to elect the 150 members of the National Council. The elections followed the fall of Prime Minister Iveta Radičová's Slovak Democratic and Christian Union –Democratic Party-led coalition in October 2011 over a no confidence vote her government had lost because of its support for the European Financial Stability Fund. Amidst a major corruption scandal involving local center-right politicians,former Prime Minister Robert Fico's Direction –Social Democracy won an absolute majority of seats.
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.
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 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 TomášValášek 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.
Vladimír Bilčík is a Slovak university lecturer and politician of the Slovak party Democrats. He has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.
Milan Uhrík is a Slovak politician and non-inscrit MEP. 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,also commonly referred to as Hlas,is a social-democratic 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).
An early parliamentary election was held in Slovakia on 30 September 2023 to elect members of the National Council.
Miroslav Beblavý is a Slovak former politician,economist and businessman. Between 2010 and 2020,he served three terms as an MP of the National Council of Slovakia. In addition 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. Previously,he was the Deputy Chairman of the Sieťparty.
