Richard Sulík
Slovak politician and former head of Slovak National Council
Richard Sulík (born 12 January 1968) is a Slovak politician, economist, and business magnate. He founded and was the leader of the political party Freedom and Solidarity until 2024 and served as Deputy Prime Minister for Economy and Minister of Economy in Government of Slovakia led by Eduard Heger. Sulik and his party resigned from the government on 31 August 2022.
Life
Sulík was born in Czechoslovakia in 1968, and raised in Pforzheim, West Germany, where he arrived with his parents in 1980. In 1987, he entered LMU Munich to study physics, before switching to studying economics in 1989. Returning to Slovakia in 1991, he founded a company called FaxCOPY, while also studying taxation at the University of Economics in Bratislava. From 2002 to 2003, he was an advisor to Ivan Miklos (then Minister of Finance), whose tax reform (which included a 19% flat tax) he helped pass. He remained on the Slovak finance ministry's advisory board in 2006–2007, and founded his party, Freedom and Solidarity, in 2009.
Political career
In 2010, Sulík replaced Pavol Paška as the Speaker of Parliament. A former migrant himself, Sulík has strongly opposed the acceptance of subsidiarily protected migrants from the Middle East, and has expressed anti-Islamic views, stating: "I don't want to live in a Europe where more Muslims are born than Christians."
2020
After Freedom and Solidarity received 6% votes in the 2020 Slovak parliamentary election, Sulík was personally promised the Ministry of Economy, to which Igor Matovič denied.
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