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 Slovak Democratic and Christian Union –Democratic Party is a liberal-conservative,Christian-democratic political party in Slovakia. The SDKÚ-DS was a member of the Centrist Democrat International and was a member of the European People's Party until 2018,when it was expelled due to inactivity.
The Movement for a Democratic Slovakia,later known as the People's Party –Movement for a Democratic Slovakia,was a populist political party in Slovakia. The party is commonly considered as having been authoritarian and illiberal.
Direction –Social Democracy,also commonly referred to as Smer,is a left-wing nationalist political party in Slovakia led by the incumbent prime minister Robert Fico.
The Slovak National Party is an ultranationalist political party in Slovakia. The party characterizes itself as a nationalist party based on both social and European Christian values.
Ján Slota is the co-founder and former president of the Slovak National Party,an extremist nationalist party. Slota as the leader of SNS entered into a coalition with Robert Fico's Smer in 2006. He was the mayor of the city of Žilina from 1990 to 2006.
Juraj Schenk is former Foreign Minister of Slovakia from 1994 to 1996 in cabinet of Vladimír Mečiar.
Most–Híd 2023 is an inter-ethnic political party in Slovakia. Its programme calls for greater cooperation between the country's Hungarian minority and ethnic Slovak majority. It was one of four parties in the Fico III government coalition,but lost all its seats in the National Council in the 2020 Slovak parliamentary election.
Parliamentary elections were held in Slovakia on 12 June 2010. The elections were contested by eighteen parties,six of which passed the 5% threshold for sitting in parliament. Despite the incumbent Smer of Prime Minister Robert Fico winning a plurality,the new government consisted of a coalition led by the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union –Democratic Party's Iveta Radičováand included KDH,SaS and Most-Hid. However,her government fell on 11 October 2011 following a vote of no confidence with a new election called for 10 March 2012.
Elections to the European Parliament took place in Slovakia on 24 May 2014. It was the third European election which took place in Slovakia.
Parliamentary elections were held in Slovakia on 29 February 2020 to elect all 150 members of the National Council.
Pavol Pavlis is a Slovak politician affiliated with the Direction - Social Democracy (SMER-SD) party. His political career dates from 2006 with an alternate work in the Slovak legislature and in the state administration of the Slovak Republic.
Eduard Heger is a Slovak politician,who served as the Prime Minister of Slovakia from 1 April 2021 to 15 May 2023. He previously served as the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance in the cabinet of Igor Matovič. Heger was a member of the presidium of the Ordinary People and Independent Personalities (OĽaNO) party which he left in March 2023 to take over the extra-parliamentary Blue Coalition party,subsequently rebranded as Democrats.
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.
The Hungarian Alliance is a political party in Slovakia for the ethnic Hungarian minority,previously known as "Szövetség-Aliancia",it was founded when "Party of the Hungarian Community" and Most–Híd merged into "Hungarian Community Toghetherness". It is led by former SMK-MKP leader,Krisztián Forró.
The Hungarian Forum is a Slovak political party which was established on 28 February 2019. Its founder and chairman is the former minister and politician of SMK–MKP and Most–Híd,Member of the National Council,Zsolt Simon.
Events in the year 2023 in Slovakia.
Edita Pfundtner is a Slovak lawyer and politician. From 2010 to 2012 and again from 2014 to 2018 she was a Member of the National Council. From 2018 to 2020 and from 2022 to 2023 she Served as the State Secretary at the Ministry of Justice and the office of the Deputy Prime Minister.
Ľubomír Vážny is a Slovak politician. He is a former Minister of Transport,Posts and Telecommunications of the Slovak Republic. He served from 4 July 2006 to 8 July 2010. From 2012 to 2016,he was Deputy Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic for Investments. From 24 July 2017 to 9 September 2020,he was the Director General of the Social Insurance Institution.
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.
