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2015 in Slovakia

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The following lists events that will happen during 2015 in Slovakia.

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Head of State

2015 is the first full year of the 4th President Andrej Kiska, elected as an independent candidate in the 2014.

  • President – Andrej Kiska (Independent)

    • Government

    2015 is the last full year of the 8th National Council. Next parliamentary elections will be held on or before 5 March 2016. The Robert Fico's Second Cabinet, elected in 2012 consisted solely from Direction – Social Democracy party (Slovak: Smer – sociálna demokracia, abbr. Smer-SD), continues.

  • Speaker of the National Council – Peter Pellegrini (Smer-SD)
  • Prime Minister – Robert Fico (Smer-SD)
  • Minister of Foreign Affairs – Miroslav Lanjčák (Independent)
  • Minister of Interior – Robert Kaliňák (Smer-SD)
  • Minister of Finance – Peter Kažimír (Smer-SD)
  • Minister of Defence – Martin Glváč (Smer-SD)

    • Major parties' leaders

    Parties in National Council
  • Direction – Social Democracy (Slovak: Smer – sociálna demokracia, abbr. Smer-SD) – Robert Fico
  • Christian Democratic Movement (Slovak: Kresťanskodemokratické hnutie, abbr. KDH) – Ján Figeľ
  • Ordinary People and Independent Personalities (Slovak: Obyčajní Ľudia a nezávislé osobnosti, abbr. OĽaNO) – Igor Matovič
  • Most–Híd – Béla Bugár
  • Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party (Slovak: Slovenská demokratická a kresťanská únia – Demokratická strana, abbr. SDKÚ-DS) – Pavol Frešo
  • Freedom and Solidarity (Slovak: Sloboda a Solidarita, abbr. SaS) – Richard Sulík
    • Major extra-parliamentary parties
  • Network (Slovak: SIEŤ) – Radoslav Procházka
  • Slovak Civic Coalition (Slovak: Slovenská občianska koalícia, abbr. SKOK!) – Juraj Miškov
  • Slovak National Party (Slovak: Slovenská národná strana, abbr. SNS) – Andrej Danko
  • Party of the Hungarian Community (Slovak & Hungarian: Strana maďarskej komunity – Magyar Közösség Pártja, abbr. SMK-MKP) – József Berényi

    • Other state leading representatives

  • Head of the Constitutional Court of Slovakia – Ivetta Macejková

    • Chairpersons of Self-governing Regions

  • Bratislava Self-governing Region – Pavol Frešo (coalition of SDKÚ-DS, KDH, Most–Híd, SMK-MKP, OKS, SaS, SZ)
  • Trnava Self-governing Region – Tibor Mikuš (Independent)
  • Trenčín Self-governing Region – Jaroslav Baška (Smer-SD)
  • Nitra Self-governing Region – Milan Belica (coalition of Smer-SD, SNS, ASV)
  • Banská Bystrica Self-governing Region – Marian Kotleba (ĽSNS)
  • Žilina Self-governing Region – Juraj Blanár (coalition of HZD, SNS, Smer-SD)
  • Košice Self-governing Region – Zdenko Trebuľa (Smer-SD)
  • Prešov Self-governing Region – Peter Chudík (coalition of Smer-SD, HZD, SNS)

    • January

  • January 1 – President Andrej Kiska in his New Year's speech stressed need to fight corruption, need for political activism, reducing bureaucracy. Kiska also described situation in Ukraine as a breach of Ukrainian territorial sovereignty and interference with the political independence of the country.
  • January 27 – 46th Session of the National Council (to February 13)

    • February

  • February 1 – Regulation No. 1 of 2015 of the Slovak Republic Ministry of Interior on granting state citizenship of the Slovak Republic for specific reasons came into force. The regulation allows granting the citizenship to former Slovakia's citizens who lost citizenship after January 1, 1993, including those, who lost citizenship due to acquisition of foreign country's citizenship, under the Act No. 250/2010 Coll. of laws Amending and Supplementing the Act No. 40/1993 on State Citizenship
  • February 7 – Slovak same-sex marriage referendum, 2015 failed with only 21.4% of citizens casting a vote
  • February 18 – 47th Session of the National Council

    • References

    2015 in Slovakia Wikipedia
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