Róbert Švec (born 21 August 1976) is a Slovak politician who has served as chairman of the Slovak Revival Movement since 2019.

Early and personal life

Born 21 August 1976 in Nitra, Švec studied political science at the University of Trnava.

Political career

In the

2019 Slovak presidential election Presidential elections were held in Slovakia in March 2019. Incumbent President Andrej Kiska did not run for a second term. Fifteen candidates contested the first round on 16 March, of which two later formally withdrew their bids before voting to ...

, Švec ran as an independent candidate for the President of Slovakia. On 28 January 2019, he submitted more than 18,000 signatures confirming his candidacy for the presidency. During the first round in March 2019, Švec received 6,567 votes and did not advance to the second round. After the 2019 presidential election, Švec founded his political party, the Slovak Revival Movement (SHO), and became its chairman. He ran as the leader of SHO candidates in the

2020 Slovak parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Slovakia on 29 February 2020 to elect all 150 members of the National Council. The anti-corruption list led by Ordinary People and Independent Personalities (OĽaNO) movement emerged as the largest parliame ...

, but the party did not win any seat. Švec was about to ran his candidacy once again in the

2024 Slovak presidential election Presidential elections were held in Slovakia in March and April 2024. Incumbent president Zuzana Čaputová announced in June 2023 that she would not run for a second term. In the first round held on 23 March, Ivan Korčok led with 42.5% of t ...

, this time as a member of the Slovak Revival Movement. However, he was ruled ineligible due to an insufficient number of valid signatures.

Controversy

Švec and the Slovak Revival Movement have repeatedly glorified the president of World War II era

Slovak Republic Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the s ...

and convinced war criminal Jozef Tiso. In an interview with JOJ, Švec declared that Slovakia should withdraw from the European Union and NATO and band the Intersex and LGBT symbols. He further declared that Slovakia should curb media freedom "so that our youth does not grow up under the influence of decadent culture and tabloids."

References

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