| Chairman of the Government of the Slovak Republic | |
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| Predseda vlády Slovenskej republiky | |
| Member of | European Council |
| Residence | Episcopal Summer Palace |
| Appointer | President of the Republic |
| Term length | Depending on the support of the National Council |
| Formation | 1 January 1993 |
| First holder | Vladimír Mečiar |
| Salary | c. 77,892 € annually |
| Website | vlada |
The prime minister of Slovakia, officially the Chairman of the government of the Slovak Republic (Slovak: Predseda vlády Slovenskej republiky), commonly referred to in Slovakia as Predseda vlády or informally as Premiér, is the head of the government of the Slovak Republic. Officially, the officeholder is the third highest constitutional official in Slovakia after the President of the republic (appointer) and Chairman 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, eight persons have occupied the function. On 1 April 2021, Eduard Heger became the Prime Minister of Slovakia.
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 2021, the prime minister of Slovakia has been Eduard Heger.
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 (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.
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Main article: Slovak Socialist Republic |
| Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Duration | ||||
| Štefan Sádovský (1928–1984) |
1 January 1969 |
5 May 1969 |
124 days | KSS | ||
| Peter Colotka (1925–2019) |
5 May 1969 |
13 October 1988 |
19 years and 161 days | KSS | ||
| Ivan Knotek (1936–2020) |
13 October 1988 |
23 June 1989 |
253 days | KSS | ||
| Pavel Hrivnák (1931–1995) |
23 June 1989 |
8 December 1989 |
168 days | KSS | ||
| Milan Čič (1932–2012) |
8 December 1989 |
6 March 1990 |
88 days | KSS | ||
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Main article: Czech and Slovak Federative Republic |
| Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Party | Government Composition |
Election | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Duration | ||||||
| Milan Čič (1932–2012) |
6 March 1990 |
27 June 1990 |
113 days | VPN | Čič caretaker |
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| Vladimír Mečiar (born 1942) 1st term |
27 June 1990 |
6 May 1991 |
313 days | VPN | Mečiar I VPN–KDH–DS |
1990 | ||
| Ján Čarnogurský (born 1944) |
6 May 1991 |
24 June 1992 |
1 year and 49 days | KDH | Čarnogurský ODÚ–KDH–DS | |||
| Vladimír Mečiar (born 1942) 2nd term |
24 June 1992 |
31 December 1992 |
190 days | HZDS | Mečiar II HZDS–SNS |
1992 | ||
| Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Party | Cabinet | Composition | Election | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Duration | |||||||
| Vladimír Mečiar (born 1942) |
1 January 1993 |
15 March 1994 |
1 year, 73 days | HZDS | Mečiar II | HZDS • SNS | 1992 | ||
| Jozef Moravčík (born 1945) |
15 March 1994 |
13 December 1994 |
273 days | DEÚS | Moravčík | SDĽ • KDH • DEÚS • NDS | |||
| Vladimír Mečiar (born 1942) |
13 December 1994 |
30 October 1998 |
3 years, 321 days | HZDS | Mečiar III | HZDS • SNS • ZRS | 1994 | ||
| Mikuláš Dzurinda (born 1956) |
30 October 1998 |
16 October 2002 |
7 years, 247 days | SDK[a] | Dzurinda I | SDK • SDĽ • SMK • SOP (1998–2000) |
1998 | ||
| SDKÚ | SDKÚ • KDH • SDĽ • SMK • SOP (2000–2002) | ||||||||
| 16 October 2002 |
4 July 2006 |
Dzurinda II | SDKÚ • SMK • KDH • ANO (2002–2006) |
2002 | |||||
| SDKÚ • SMK • ANO (2006) | |||||||||
| Robert Fico (born 1964) |
4 July 2006 |
8 July 2010 |
4 years, 4 days | Smer | Fico I | Smer • SNS • HZDS | 2006 | ||
| Iveta Radičová (born 1956) |
8 July 2010 |
4 April 2012 |
1 year, 271 days | SDKÚ | Radičová | SDKÚ • SaS • KDH • Bridge | 2010 | ||
| Robert Fico (born 1964) |
4 April 2012 |
23 March 2016 |
5 years, 352 days | Smer | Fico II | Smer | 2012 | ||
| 23 March 2016 |
22 March 2018 |
Fico III | Smer • SNS • Bridge • Sieť (2016) |
2016 | |||||
| Smer • SNS • Bridge (2016–2018) | |||||||||
| Peter Pellegrini (born 1975) |
22 March 2018 |
21 March 2020 |
1 year, 365 days | Smer | Pellegrini | Smer • SNS • Bridge | |||
| Igor Matovič (born 1973) |
21 March 2020 |
1 April 2021 |
1 year, 11 days | OĽaNO | Matovič | OĽaNO • We Are Family • SaS • For the People | 2020 | ||
| Eduard Heger (born 1976) |
1 April 2021 |
Incumbent | 1 year, 363 days | OĽaNO | Heger | OĽaNO • We Are Family • SaS • For the People (2021–2022) | |||
| OĽaNO • We Are Family • For the People (2022–present) | |||||||||
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| # | Prime Minister | Date of birth | Age at inauguration (first term) |
Time in office (total) |
Age at retirement (last term) |
Date of death | Longevity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vladimír Mečiar | July 26, 1942 | 50 years, 159 days | 5 years, 29 days | 56 years, 96 days | Living | 80 years, 247 days (Living) |
| 2 | Jozef Moravčík | March 19, 1945 | 48 years, 361 days | 273 days | 49 years, 269 days | Living | 78 years, 11 days (Living) |
| 3 | Mikuláš Dzurinda | February 4, 1956 | 42 years, 268 days | 7 years, 247 days | 50 years, 150 days | Living | 67 years, 54 days (Living) |
| 4 | Robert Fico | September 15, 1964 | 41 years, 292 days | 9 years, 356 days | 53 years, 188 days | Living | 58 years, 196 days (Living) |
| 5 | Iveta Radičová | December 7, 1956 | 53 years, 213 days | 1 year, 271 days | 55 years, 119 days | Living | 66 years, 113 days (Living) |
| 6 | Peter Pellegrini | October 6, 1975 | 42 years, 167 days | 1 year, 365 days | 44 years, 167 days | Living | 47 years, 175 days (Living) |
| 7 | Igor Matovič | May 11, 1973 | 46 years, 315 days | 1 year, 11 days | 47 years, 325 days | Living | 49 years, 323 days (Living) |
| 8 | Eduard Heger | May 3, 1976 | 44 years, 333 days | 1 year, 363 days | Incumbent | Living | 46 years, 331 days (Living) |
