Igor Matovič

Deputy Prime Minister of Slovakia

11 May 1973 Trnava, Czechoslovakia

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Incumbent

7th Prime Minister of Slovakia Igor Matovič (born 11 May 1973) is a Slovak politician and former businessman currently serving as Minister of Finance of Slovakia. He served as Prime Minister from March 2020 to April 2021. Born in Trnava, he studied at Comenius University and went into the publishing business. Elected to the National Council in 2010 on the Freedom and Solidarity party list, Matovič founded the Ordinary People (Obyčajní ľudia) movement in 2011, which ran on an anti-corruption ticket and was politically to the centre-right. His anti-corruption campaigning has been marked out by "publicity stunts to shine a light on alleged graft" particularly focusing on parliamentary privileges and bribery. In the 2020 election, his party obtaining a sufficient number of seats to enter into a coalition government with three other centrist and right-wing parties. Matovič's choices for his Cabinet were accepted by President Zuzana Čaputová and he was appointed Prime Minister on 21 March 2020. He resigned on 1 April 2021 to then be appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance in the Cabinet of Eduard Heger.