Gabriela Matečná (born 28 November 1964) is a Slovak

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and politician. Between 2016 and 2020, she served as the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development. Since 2018, she is a member of the

Slovak National Party The Slovak National Party (, SNS) is an ultranationalist political party in Slovakia. The party characterizes itself as a nationalist party based on both social and European Christian values. Since 1990 SNS has won seats in every Slovak pa ...

Early life

Matečná graduated from the

Slovak University of Agriculture Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra is a public university in Nitra, Slovakia Slovakia, officially the Slovak Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary ...

. Since 2008, she worked at the Slovak Land Fund - the government agency responsible for managing government owned agricultural land. In 2012, she became the CEO of the Fund as a nominee of the

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party. As a CEO, she faced accusations of helping people connected to the Prime Minister

Robert Fico Robert Fico (; born 15 September 1964) is a Slovak politician who has served as the prime minister of Slovakia since 2023. He previously served as prime minister from 2006 to 2010 and from 2012 to 2018. He founded the left-wing political party D ...

to buy lucrative state-owned land.

Political career

Matečná became the Minister of Agriculture in 2016 as a nominee, but not a member of, the

. She became a member of the party in 2018. After the

failed to pass the representation threshold 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 populist Ordinary People and Independent Personalities–NOVA–Christian Union–Change from Below (OĽaNO–NOVA–KÚ� ...

, she retired from politics.

References

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