Peter Pellegrini

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Peter Pellegrini (2015)

Peter Pellegrini (born October 6, 1975 in Banská Bystrica ) is a Slovak politician . He was Prime Minister of Slovakia from March 22, 2018 to March 21, 2020 .

Life

Pellegrini was born in 1975 in Banská Bystrica as the son of a teacher and a car mechanic. His Italian family immigrated to Slovakia. (At that time Upper Hungary) After completing school, he completed a degree in finance in his hometown and in Košice . He then worked as an entrepreneur .

Political career

In 2000 Pellegrini joined the Smer party, which had recently been founded by Robert Fico . After the parliamentary elections in 2002 he worked as an assistant to a Smer member of the Slovak National Council . In the 2006 elections he was elected to the National Council for the first time and was re-elected in the 2010 , 2012 and 2016 elections.

On July 3, 2014, he was appointed Minister of Education as the successor to Dušan Čaplovič on the proposal of Prime Minister Fico . As early as November 24, 2014, he succeeded Pavol Paška as President of the National Council, which he held until the 2016 elections. In the new government formed by Robert Fico after the 2016 elections , he assumed the office of Vice Prime Minister responsible for investments.

After Prime Minister Robert Fico offered to resign on March 14, 2018 following a government crisis triggered by the murder of journalist Ján Kuciak to continue the previous coalition, he proposed Pellegrini for the office of Prime Minister . President Andrej Kiska therefore commissioned Pellegrini on March 15, 2018 to form a new government and swore it in on March 22. Smer lost in the elections in February 2020, about 10% of the votes and was only the second strongest force. Igor Matovič , chairman of the OĽaNO then formed a new government , in which the Smer is no longer involved. Pellegrini retained his parliamentary mandate.

As a result of a dispute over the party leadership with the controversial Robert Fico, Pellegrini resigned from the Smer party in early June 2020 and founded his own party. In the meantime eleven of the 38 members of the Smer have converted to this party with the name " Hlas - sociálna demokracia " (German: vote - social democracy).

Political positions

In terms of content, Pellegrini is considered a “modernizer” who also has “classic social democratic views”.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ tagesschau.de: New Slovak government: swearing in with face mask. Retrieved March 21, 2020 .
  2. ^ After journalist murder : new Slovak government is in place. In: spiegel.de. March 22, 2018, accessed March 26, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Dušan Mikušovič: Pellegrini sa odhodlal: odmietol Fica a odíde zo Smeru. In: dennikn.sk. June 10, 2020, accessed on July 13, 2020 (Slovak).
  4. ↑ Pellegrini predstavil Novu politickú stranu Hlas. In: pravda.sk. June 29, 2020, accessed on July 13, 2020 (Slovak).
  5. ↑ David X. Noack: "Robert Fico continues to dominate the left" . In: young world . March 22, 2018, p. 3 ( online [accessed March 26, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Pellegrini, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Banská Bystrica