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Robert Fico
Robert Fico is a Slovak politician and lawyer, who has served as the prime minister of Slovakia since 2023. Fico holds the distinction as the longest-serving prime minister in the country's history. His collective time in power spans over 13 years across four distinct mandates. He founded the left-wing political party Direction – Social Democracy in 1999 and has led the party since. His political…
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politics · Prime Minister of Slovakia (2006–2010, 2012–2018, 2023–present) · politician · also Robert Fico, Fico
Born 15 September 1964 · Q57606
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2026· 9 entries
“everything is as clear as God”
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“hundreds of Slovak politicians, whether at the national, regional, or local level, own property there”
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“long been public opponents of [his] government”
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“s call for government changes was not”
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“respects the election result”
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The Slovak Spectator: News digest: Fico threatens to sideline Hlas minister over nuclear project
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TASR: Fico Offers Aid to Croatian Prime Minister Concerning Wildfire
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Visegrad Insight: Robert Fico Is Selling Off Slovakia
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2025· 4 entries
StopFake rated the claim “Fico, Orban and Vucic’s Approval Ratings Increased After Moscow Trip” Euronews did not release this video, and the data in it is not true..
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Fico addressed the Conservative Political Action Conferences, which aim to gather conservatives, in the United States in February and in Hungary in May
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“We look forward to this conflict”
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“s plan to use frozen Russian assets to finance military costs in Ukraine. Fico called the EU initiative controversial, warning that seizing the assets for military aid would only prolong the war, and argued that the focus should be on a peace plan. He emphasized that Slovakia would not participate in any legal or financial schemes directed at using the frozen funds for Ukrainian military spending and stated,”
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2024· 9 entries
Lead Stories rated the claim “The wife of Fico shooting suspect Juraj Cintula is a Ukrainian refugee” Police Deny.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Fico shooting suspect is member of pro-Western Progressive Party” Not Affiliated.
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Snopes rated the claim “A video circulating on social media in May 2024 authentically shows Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico being dragged into a car after being shot.” True.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico formally and publicly rejected the World Health Organization WHO Global Pandemic Accord only days before an assassination attempt” No Record.
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PolitiFact rated the claim “Video shows Slovakia Prime Minister Fico speaking against the World Health Organization the week before he was the target of an assassination attempt.” False.
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Fico's recovery from the assassination attempt continued throughout late 2024 and into 2025, marked by ongoing health complications.
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On 15 May 2024, Fico was shot several times in an assassination attempt and was subsequently hospitalized at the F.D.
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Career landmark: attempted assassination of Robert Fico.
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Fico's coalition passed an Amendment to the Criminal Code
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2023· 2 entries
Career landmark: Prime Minister of Slovakia (2023).
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Fico purchased a 135-square-meter apartment in the residence for €509,000, securing it at a price significantly below the expert-estimated market value of €750,000 to €1 million
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2022· 3 entries
As his son Michal Fico and his wife welcomed a baby girl Pavlína
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And emphasizing that he represents qualities absent in modern Slovakia
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And another in 2025, both acquired without mortgage financing
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2021· 1 entry
In summer 2021, while on vacation in Greece, Fico passed out during breakfast.
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2020· 3 entries
Led by Peter Pellegrini and other dissidents of Fico's Smer, and the nationalist Slovak National Party (SNS), led by Andrej Danko, thereby bringing the SNS back into government after a three-year absence from the Nationa
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Was a consequence of internal power struggles and a significant electoral defeat under Peter Pellegrini's parliamentary leadership in the 2020 election that sent the party back into opposition
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At least since 2020, Fico has practiced an open relationship with Katarína Szalayová; they have been seen together in public on many occasions.
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2019· 2 entries
Fico stayed in various temporary residences
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Despite his marriage, Fico hasn't lived with his wife since 2019, and doesn't attend any official events with her.
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2018· 1 entry
“I want to pose a simple question to Mr. President. On 20 September 2017 in New York, on 5th Avenue, I am asking, why the Head of State would pay a visit on private soil to a person, who has questionable reputation and this person”
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2016· 1 entry
“s future agenda and called for the EU to be less”
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2015· 1 entry
Fico was a vocal proponent of strengthening the Schengen Area's external borders, particularly during the European migrant crisis
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2014· 4 entries
Awarded Order of the White Lion presented by Miloš Zeman (2014).
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Fico said he grew up in a Catholic family and that he considers himself a Catholic
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When "Ukrainian Nazis and fascists started to murder the Russian citizens in Donbas and Luhansk"
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Fico experienced a recurrence of his serious spinal health issues in April 2014, five years after his first reported incident.
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2013· 2 entries
Fico declared his candidacy for the 2014 presidential election, but ultimately lost to his political rival Andrej Kiska in the second round of voting
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“I understand my candidacy as a service to Slovakia.”
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2012· 2 entries
From businessman Ladislav Bašternák, who was later convicted of tax fraud
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Slovakia (2012–2018).
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2009· 1 entry
Suffering one of the steepest economic declines among developed nations
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2008· 1 entry
Fico moved into a residential Apartment complex Čmelovec located in Bratislava's Old Town, near Bratislava Castle, which belongs to the Diplomatic Services Bureau
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2007· 1 entry
Opposition leader Mikuláš Dzurinda accused Fico of a speculative purchase, claiming the land's subsequent reclassification for construction had inflated its value to approximately €180,000 (SKK 6 million)
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2006· 1 entry
Career landmark: Prime Minister of Slovakia (2006–2010).
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2004· 2 entries
It merged with nearly all the leftist parties active on the Slovak political scene, including its parent party SDĽ, becoming the single most dominant political party in Slovakia
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Career landmark: Member of the European Parliament (2004–2004).
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2003· 1 entry
Career landmark: Representative of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (2003–2005).
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2002· 2 entries
Fico purchased an 820-square-meter vineyard plot in Bratislava's New Town for a notably low price of approximately €1,850 (less than 37,000 SKK)
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Completed his postgraduate study, earning him the title of associate professor
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1999· 1 entry
Career landmark: Representative of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (1999–2000).
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1998· 2 entries
Fico ran for the post of general prosecutor; his party endorsed another candidate instead, arguing that Fico was too young
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Was elected deputy chairman of the party
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1993· 1 entry
Career landmark: substitute member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (1993–1999).
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1992· 1 entry
Was appointed the following year to the Czechoslovak delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
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1984· 1 entry
Fico stated that he was "strictly atheistic", as was required to be accepted
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1964· 1 entry
Born 1964-09-15.
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