Prime Minister of Slovakia

Chairman of the Government of the Slovak Republic
Predseda vlády Slovenskej republiky
Coat of arms of the Slovak Republic
Incumbent Igor Matovič since 21 March 2020
Member of	European Council
Residence	Episcopal Summer Palace
Appointer	President of the Republic
Term length	Depending on the support of the National Council
Inaugural holder	Štefan Sádovský
Formation	2 January 1969
Salary	c. 61,919 € annually
Website	http://www.vlada.gov.sk/

The Chairman of the Government of the Slovak Republic (Slovak: Predseda vlády Slovenskej republiky), also known as the Prime Minister of Slovakia (Slovak: Premiér), is the head of the government of the Slovak Republic. On paper, the officeholder is the third highest constitutional official in Slovakia after the President of the Republic (appointer) and Speaker of the National Council; in practice, the appointee is the country's leading political figure.

Since the creation of the office in 1969, thirteen persons have served as head of government. Since 1993, when Slovakia gained independence, six persons have occupied the function. On 21 March 2020, Igor Matovič became Prime Minister of Slovakia.

History

The office of Prime Minister of Slovakia was established in 1969 by the Constitutional Act on the Czechoslovak Federation. A similar office had existed from 1918 when various officials were presiding over executive bodies governing the Slovak part of Czechoslovakia or the Slovak State respectively. Since 1993, when the independent Slovak Republic was established, there have been six persons to hold the office. Since 2020, the Prime Minister of Slovakia has been Igor Matovič.

Powers and role

Since Slovakia is a parliamentary republic the Prime Minister is accountable to the National Council. The Slovak Constitution provides that upon the accession to the office each Prime Minister must gain and thereafter maintain the confidence of the Parliament. As soon as the Prime Minister loses the confidence, the President is obliged to dismiss him and designate a new Prime Minister or entrust the dismissed Prime Minister to act as a caretaker with limited powers.

The Prime Minister is the most powerful office in state, since he commands and presides over the Government. Although it is not the Prime Minister but the President who appoints Ministers in Cabinet, the President appoints Ministers on the advice of the Prime Minister.

Designated Prime Minister of Slovakia

Designated Prime Minister of Slovakia (Slovak: designovaný predseda vlády) is an unofficial title for a person who has been entrusted by the President of the Slovak Republic with forming a new government and replacing the outgoing Prime Minister. This title, as well as the authorization of the president to entrust the designated PM, is not set by an act but is a legal or, more precisely, constitutional tradition. According to this tradition, the President designates a person who has support of the majority of deputies in the National Council.

List of Prime Ministers of Slovakia

First Czechoslovak Republic (1918–1938)

Minister plenipotentiary for administration of Slovakia

• Vavro Šrobár (4 November 1918 – 14 November 1918)

Land President of Slovakia

• Ján Drobný (1 July 1928 – 1929)
• Jozef Országh (1929–1938)
• Julián Šimko (1938–1939)

Second Czechoslovak Republic (1938–1939)

Prime Ministers of the Autonomy Government of Slovakia

• Jozef Tiso (7 October 1938 – 9 March 1939)
• Jozef Sivák (9 March 1939 – 11 March 1939)
• Karol Sidor (11 March 1939 – 14 March 1939)

First Slovak Republic (1939–1945)

Prime Ministers of the First Slovak Republic

• Jozef Tiso (14 March 1939 – 17 October 1939)
• Vojtech Tuka (27 October 1939 – 5 September 1944)
• Štefan Tiso (5 September 1944 – 4 April 1945)

Third Czechoslovak Republic (1945–1948)

Chairman of the Board of Commissioners

• Karol Šmidke (18 September 1945 – 14 August 1946)
• Gustáv Husák (14 August 1946 – 4 May 1950)

Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (1948–1989)

1 January 1969 – 5 March 1990: called "Slovak Socialist Republic" within Czechoslovakia.

Chairman of the Board of Commissioners

• Gustáv Husák (14 August 1946 – 4 May 1950)
• Karol Bacílek (4 May 1950 – 7 September 1951)
• Július Ďuriš (7 September 1951 – 31 January 1953)
• Rudolf Strechaj (31 January 1953 – 11 July 1960)

Chairman of the Slovak National Council

• Rudolf Strechaj (14 July 1960 – 28 July 1962)
• Jozef Lenárt (31 October 1962 – 20 March 1963)
• Michal Chudík (23 March 1963 – 29 December 1968)

Prime Ministers of the Slovak Socialist Republic

1. Štefan Sádovský: 2 January 1969 – 5 May 1969
2. Peter Colotka: 5 May 1969 – 12 October 1988
3. Ivan Knotek: 13 October 1988 – 22 June 1989
4. Pavel Hrivnák: 23 June 1989 – 8 December 1989

Czech and Slovak Federative Republic (1990–1992)

6 March 1990 – 31 December 1992: called "Slovak Republic" within Czechoslovakia.

Prime Ministers of the Slovak Republic

KSČ        VPN       KDH
No.		Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of Office			Political Party	Cabinet		National Council
				Took Office	Left Office	Days
style="background-color:Template:Communist Party of Czechoslovakia/meta/color;" |	5		Milan Čič (1932–2012)	10 December 1989	27 June 1990	197	Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ)	I	KSČ – VPN	rowspan=2 bgcolor=Template:Communist Party of Czechoslovakia/meta/color | 5 ( ···· )
style="background-color:Template:Public Against Violence/meta/color;" |							Public Against Violence (VPN)
style="background-color:Template:Public Against Violence/meta/color;" |	6		Vladimír Mečiar (born 1942)	27 June 1990	6 May 1991	299	Public Against Violence (VPN)	I	VPN – KDH – DS – MNI	bgcolor=Template:Public Against Violence/meta/color | 6 (1990)
style="background-color:Template:Christian Democratic Movement/meta/color;" |	7		Ján Čarnogurský (born 1944)	6 May 1991	24 June 1992	428	Christian Democratic Movement (KDH)	I	ODÚ – KDH – DS – MNI	bgcolor=Template:Public Against Violence/meta/color | 6 ( ···· )

Slovak Republic (1993–present)

From 1 January 1993 after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia.

HZDS/ĽS-HZDS (National conservative)        DEÚS (Liberal conservative)       SDK (Christian democrat)       SDKÚ/SDKÚ-DS (Liberal conservative)       SMER-SD (Social democratic)       OĽaNO (Conservative)
No.		Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of Office			Political Party	Cabinet		National Council
				Took Office	Left Office	Days
style="background-color:Template:People's Party – Movement for a Democratic Slovakia/meta/color;" |	1		Vladimír Mečiar (born 1942)	24 June 1992	15 March 1994	629	Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS)	II	HZDS, joined by SNS in 1993	bgcolor=Template:People's Party – Movement for a Democratic Slovakia/meta/color | 7 (1992)
style="background-color:Template:Democratic Union of Slovakia/meta/color; color:black" |	2		Jozef Moravčík (born 1945)	15 March 1994	13 December 1994	273	Democratic Union of Slovakia (DEÚS)	I	DEÚS – KDH – SDĽ – NDS	bgcolor=Template:People's Party – Movement for a Democratic Slovakia/meta/color | 7 ( ···· )
style="background-color:Template:People's Party – Movement for a Democratic Slovakia/meta/color;" |	(1)		Vladimír Mečiar (born 1942)	13 December 1994	30 October 1998	1417	Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS)	III	HZDS – ZRS – SNS – RSS	bgcolor=Template:People's Party – Movement for a Democratic Slovakia/meta/color | 1 (1994)
style="background-color:Template:Slovak Democratic Coalition/meta/color;" |	3		Mikuláš Dzurinda (born 1955)	30 October 1998	15 October 2002	2804	Slovak Democratic Coalition (SDK) SDK later replaced by SDKÚ	I	SDK – SDĽ – SMK – SOP SDK later replaced by SDKÚ	bgcolor=Template:People's Party – Movement for a Democratic Slovakia/meta/color | 2 (1998)
style="background-color:Template:Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party/meta/color;" |				16 October 2002	4 July 2006		Slovak Democratic and Christian Union (SDKÚ)	II	SDKÚ – SMK – KDH – ANO	bgcolor=Template:People's Party – Movement for a Democratic Slovakia/meta/color | 3 (2002)
style="background-color:Template:Direction – Social Democracy/meta/color" |	4		Robert Fico (born 1964)	4 July 2006	8 July 2010	1465	Direction – Social Democracy (SMER-SD)	I	SMER-SD – SNS – ĽS-HZDS	bgcolor=Template:Direction – Social Democracy/meta/color | 4 (2006)
style="background-color:Template:Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party/meta/color" |	5		Iveta Radičová (born 1956)	8 July 2010	4 April 2012	636	Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party (SDKÚ-DS)	I	SDKÚ-DS – SaS – KDH – Most–Híd	bgcolor=Template:Direction – Social Democracy/meta/color | 5 (2010)
rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Direction – Social Democracy/meta/color" |	(4)		Robert Fico (born 1964)	4 April 2012	23 March 2016	4437	Direction – Social Democracy (SMER-SD)	II	SMER-SD	bgcolor=Template:Direction – Social Democracy/meta/color | 6 (2012)
23 March 2016				22 March 2018	III			SMER-SD – SNS – Most–Híd – SIEŤ SIEŤ exited cabinet	bgcolor=Template:Direction – Social Democracy/meta/color | 7 (2016)
style="background-color:Template:Direction – Social Democracy/meta/color" |	6		Peter Pellegrini (born 1975)	22 March 2018	21 March 2020	730	Direction – Social Democracy (SMER-SD)	I	SMER-SD – SNS – Most–Híd	bgcolor=Template:Direction – Social Democracy/meta/color | 7 ( ···· )
style="background-color:Template:Ordinary People (Slovakia)/meta/color" |	7		Igor Matovič (born 1973)	21 March 2020	Incumbent	1529	Ordinary People and Independent Personalities (OĽaNO)	I	OĽaNO – Sme Rodina – SaS - Za ľudí	bgcolor=Template:Ordinary People (Slovakia)/meta/color | 8 (2020)

Statistics

#	Prime Minister	Date of birth	Age at inauguration (first term)	Time in office (total)	Age at retirement (last term)	Date of death	Longevity
1	Mečiar, VladimírVladimír Mečiar	19420726July 26, 1942(July 26, 1942)	49 33449 years, 334 days	05 2215 years, 221 days	56 09656 years, 96 days	Living	29,89281 years, 307 days (Living)
2	Moravčík, JozefJozef Moravčík	19450319March 19, 1945(March 19, 1945)	49 36149 years, 361 days	00 2730 years, 273 days	50 26950 years, 269 days	Living	28,92579 years, 70 days (Living)
3	Dzurinda, MikulášMikuláš Dzurinda	19550204February 4, 1955(February 4, 1955)	43 26843 years, 268 days	07 2477 years, 247 days	51 15051 years, 150 days	Living	25,31669 years, 114 days (Living)
4	Fico, RobertRobert Fico	19640915September 15, 1964(September 15, 1964)	41 29241 years, 292 days	09 3569 years, 356 days	53 4653 years, 46 days	Living	21,80559 years, 256 days (Living)
5	Radičová, IvetaIveta Radičová	19561207December 7, 1956(December 7, 1956)	53 21353 years, 213 days	01 2711 year, 271 days	55 11955 years, 119 days	Living	24,64467 years, 173 days (Living)
6	Pellegrini, PeterPeter Pellegrini	19751006October 6, 1975(October 6, 1975)	42 16742 years, 167 days	01 3651 year, 365 days	44 16644 years, 166 days	Living	17,76748 years, 235 days (Living)
7	Matovič, IgorIgor Matovič	19730511May 11, 1973(May 11, 1973)	46 31546 years, 315 days	00 0034 years, 68 days (ongoing)	Incumbent	Living	18,64551 years, 17 days (Living)

See also

• List of prime ministers of Czechoslovakia
• List of Prime Ministers of the Slovak Socialist Republic