Peter Pellegrini
President of Slovakia
Peter Pellegrini (born 6 October 1975) is a Slovak politician who has been serving since 2024 as the sixth president of Slovakia. He previously served as prime minister of Slovakia from 2018 to 2020.
Pellegrini also served as the minister of health from December 2019 to March 2020, deputy prime minister (2016–2018) and minister for Education and Science (2014), as well as spending two non-consecutive stints as speaker of the National Council (2014–2016; 2023–2024). Formerly a member of Direction – Social Democracy, he left the party and co-founded and has led Voice – Social Democracy since June 2020.
In January 2024, Pellegrini announced his candidacy in the 2024 Slovak presidential election. He finished in second behind Ivan Korčok in the first round of voting. However, he defeated Korčok in the second round held on 6 April with 53% of the vote and was inaugurated as the 6th president of Slovakia on 15 June 2024.
Pellegrini is the first Slovak politician to have held all three highest constitutional posts (President, Prime Minister and Speaker of Parliament) in the country.
Early life and education
Pellegrini studied at the Faculty of Economics of Matej Bel University and the Technical University of Košice, focusing on banking, investment and finance at the latter. Between 2002 and 2006, he worked as an economist and later as advisor to National Council member for Privatization and Economy Ľubomír Vážny, supported by ĽS-HZDS, SNS and Smer-SD.
Political involvement
Early functions
He started his political career in 2002 at the age of 26 when he ran for the first time in the parliamentary elections for the party Direction – Social Democracy from 41st place and received 1,223 votes, which was not enough for him to become a deputy National Council of the SR. In the same year, he started working as an economist.
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