Election, page 18
(source: TASR)
Parliamentary election takes place in Slovakia on February 29, 2020. Read more about the election here.
Exit poll results will be published as soon as the moratorium is over, when the polling stations close at 22:00.
The 2020 election in Slovakia is expected to bring a change after two governments dominated by the Smer party of former prime minister Robert Fico, forced to step down in 2018 in the aftermath of the murder of journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kušnírová.
Health Minister: Tomáš Drucker (Smer nominee)
Tomáš Drucker has served as the general director and the president of board of the Slovenská Pošta state-run postal service company. Smer selected him for the placement at the Health Ministry after PM Robert Fico claimed all four coalition partners have agreed they wanted a person skilled in crisis management to take the ministerial chair at the currently most problematic ministry in the government.
Economy Minister: Peter Žiga (Smer)
Žiga was first elected to parliament on the slate of Smer party in 2006, but he accepted an executive post instead and was appointed state secretary of the Economy Ministry.
Environment Minister: László Solymos (Most-Híd)
László Solymos was born on November 16, 1968 in Bratislava, and graduated from the Engineering Faculty of the College of Technology in Bratislava (now the Slovak University of Technology).
Justice Minister: Lucia Žitňanská (Most-Híd)
Lucia Žitňanská served as justice minister twice before.
Culture Minister: Marek Maďarič (Smer)
Marek Maďarič served as the culture minister in both previous governments of Robert Fico (2006-2010 and 2012-2016), this is his third term.
Labour Minister: Ján Richter (Smer)
Before becoming the labour minister in 2012, Ján Richter acted as Smer’s general manager since 2006.
Finance Minister: Peter Kažimír (Smer)
Peter Kažimír first became finance minister in 2012.
Interior Minister: Robert Kaliňák (Smer)
Kaliňák was first appointed interior minister in 2006. He regained the same post in 2012. Between the years 2010 and 2012 he was member of the permanent delegation of the parliament to NATO Parliamentary Assembly.
Meet Slovakia's new cabinet (UPDATED)
List of names of the future ministers was completed on Tuesday, March 22, slightly more than one week after the four partners in the emerging government officially started coalition talks.
Deputy prime minister for investments: Peter Pellegrini (Smer)
Peter Pellegrini was perceived as the rising star of Smer when he was chosen to replace Pavol Paška as the parliament’s speaker in late 2014.
Prime Minister: Robert Fico (Smer)
Robert Fico is starting his third term as a prime minister, thus becoming Slovakia’s longest serving prime minister, if the years are counted cumulatively.
Transport Minister: Roman Brecely (Sieť)
Roman Brecely is the Sieť expert on the energy sector.
Smer’s presidium okays ministerial nominations
Ministers for new cabinet are chosen, coalition agreement to be signed Tuesday afternoon.
Beblavý: Party members are leaving Sieť
Coalition with Smer and SNS costs Sieť its members.
Hundreds of people protest against new government
People protested in downtown Bratislava against the new government coalition.
Vice-chair Zsolt Simon quits Most-Híd
THE FOUNDING member of the Most-Híd party, deputy chairman Zsolt Simon, leaves as the Republican Council approves government with Smer with all but three votes.
Nicholsonová endorsed for deputy parliament speaker post
ALL parliamentary parties agree Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) should hold the post as the strongest opposition party.
Fico does not share power
Smer kept the departments that Most-Híd and Sieť needed to carry out their priorities.
Quote of the week
“We have managed to draw a ‘thick line’ that our partners were asking us for, and to swallow the historical borders between us and the SNS.”
Socialists and democrats alliance warns Fico about coalition with SNS
GIANNI Pittella, president of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) in the European Parliament, on Thursday warned Smer leader Robert Fico not to enter into a coalition with the Slovak National Party (SNS).
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