Robert Fico
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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. H
Fico in 2025
Fico with Serbian prime minister Mirko Cvetkovic, during official visit of Serbia, October 2008
Fico with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, April 2010
Decoration at the building of National Bank of Slovakia in September 2008, ahead of Slovakia's adoption of the euro
Direction – Social Democracy
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Direction – Social Democracy, also commonly referred to as Smer, is a left-wing populist and left-wing nationalist political party in Slovakia led by its founder and incumbent prime minister, Robert F
Robert Fico
…over 13 years across four distinct mandates (2006–2010, 2012–2016, 2016–2018, and the current one since 2023). He founded the left-wing political party Direction – Social Democracy in 1999 and has led the party since. His political positions have been variously described as populist, left-wing and conservative. First elected to…
Meeting of the Slovak delegation with the European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders, 27 November 2023