2023 in Slovakia
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Incumbents
- President: Zuzana Čaputová
- Prime Minister: Eduard Heger (until 15 May), Ľudovít Ódor (15 May to 25 October), Robert Fico (starting 25 October)
Events
- January 21: 2023 Slovakian constitutional referendum: Slovakians vote in a referendum to determine whether early elections can be called before the customary end of the mandate.[1]
- January 22: Members of former government coalition agree to hold early election on September 30 2023, before the end of the parliamentary term in February 2024.[2]
- February 23: Four people are killed after a plane crashes near Trenčianske Stankovce, Trenčín Region.[3]
- May 7 President Zuzana Čaputová appoints a technocratic cabinet due to long-term political crisis started by the government losing a vote of confidence in December 2022.[4]
- June 19: the Slovakian parliament voted with the support of 111 of 150 MPs to put the right to use cash in the Constitution of Slovakia. The amendment was proposed by the Sme Rodina party.[5]
- September 15 : The Slovak government ends the State of Emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic declared on 11 March 2020.[6]
- September 30: 2023 Slovak parliamentary election: Slovaks go to the polls to elect 150 members of the National Council.[7]
- October 11: Smer leader Robert Fico agrees to form a coalition government with the left-wing Hlas and ultranationalist Slovak National Party, paving the way for Fico to become Prime Minister of Slovakia for a fourth time.[8]
- 12 October – The Party of European Socialists (PES) suspended Smer-SD and Hlas-SD over their plans to enter into coalition with SNS, which the PES views as a "radical-right party."[9]
- October 25: President Zuzana Čaputová inaugurates the Fico's Fourth Cabinet[10]
- November 21: The Fico's Fourth Cabinet passes the confidence vote in the parliament.[11]
Deaths
- 7 January: Miroslav Celler, 31, squash player.[12]
- 19 January Aranka Szentpétery, 89, actress [13]
- 23 January: Jozef Dravecký, 75, diplomat.[14]
- 1 February: Jozef Čapla, 84, ice hockey player (HC Slovan Bratislava, HC Dukla Jihlava, Augsburger EV).[15]
- 13 February Milan Hamada, 89, Literary critic.[16]
- 21 February Eva Siracká, 96, physician, president of the League Against Cancer [17]
- 31 March Stanislav Párnický, 77, movie director[18]
- 5 May Ján Vilikovský, 85, translator and diplomat, ambassador to the UK (1992–1996)[19]
- 23 May Alojz Tkáč, 89, Archbishop of Košice (1995–2010)[20]
- 24 May Dano Heriban, 43, Actor[21]
- 27 May Miroslav Belanský, 81, Minister of Agriculture (1989–91)[22]
- 29 May Etela Studeníková, 76, archeologist[23]
- 30 May Milka Zimková, 71, actress[24]
- 25 June Ján Zvonár, 72, MP (2006–10)[25]
- 31 July Dušan Velič, 56, chemist.[26]
- 8 August, Dušan Kaprálik, 75, actor[27]
- 19 August, Václav Patejdl, 68, musician[28]
- 28 August, Alojz Rakús, 76, Minister of Health (1990–1992), MP (1990–1992, 1998–2002)[29]
- 1 October, Patricia Janečková, 25, Opera singer[30]
- 12 October, Eva Rysová, 91, actress[31]
- 21 October, Alexander Ilečko, 86, sculptor[32]
- 25 October, Dobroslav Trnka, 59, lawyer, prosecutor general (2004–2011)[33]
- 20 November, Martina Lubyová, 56, Minister of Education (2017–2020)[34]
- 22 November, Barbara Haščáková, 43, singer[35]
- 14 December
- Tomáš Janovic, 86, writer [36]
- Rudolf Hrubý, 69, businessman and investor[37]
