2023 in Slovakia

Events in the year 2023 in Slovakia.

Incumbents

January 21: 2023 Slovakian constitutional referendum: Slovakians vote in a referendum to determine whether early elections can be called before the customary end of the mandate.
January 22: Members of former government coalition agree to hold early election on September 30 2023, before the end of the parliamentary term in February 2024.
February 23: Four people are killed after a plane crashes near Trenčianske Stankovce, Trenčín Region.
May 7 President Zuzana Čaputová appoints a technocratic cabinet due to long-term political crisis started by the government losing a vote of confidence in December 2022.
June 19: the Slovakian parliament voted with the support of 111 of 150 MPs to put the right to use cash in the Constitution of Slovakia. The amendment was proposed by the Sme Rodina party.
September 15 : The Slovak government ends the State of Emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic declared on 11 March 2020.
September 30: 2023 Slovak parliamentary election: Slovaks go to the polls to elect 150 members of the National Council.
October 11: Smer leader Robert Fico agrees to form a coalition government with the left-wing Hlas and ultranationalist Slovak National Party, paving the way for Fico to become Prime Minister of Slovakia for a fourth time.
October 25: President Zuzana Čaputová inaugurates the Fico's Fourth Cabinet
November 21: The Fico's Fourth Cabinet passes the confidence vote in the parliament.

7 January: Miroslav Celler, 31, squash player.
19 January Aranka Szentpétery, 89, actress
23 January: Jozef Dravecký, 75, diplomat.
1 February: Jozef Čapla, 84, ice hockey player (HC Slovan Bratislava, HC Dukla Jihlava, Augsburger EV).
13 February Milan Hamada, 89, Literary critic.
21 February Eva Siracká, 96, physician, president of the League Against Cancer
31 March Stanislav Párnický, 77, movie director
5 May Ján Vilikovský, 85, translator and diplomat, ambassador to the UK (1992–1996)
23 May Alojz Tkáč, 89, Archbishop of Košice (1995–2010)
24 May Dano Heriban, 43, Actor
27 May Miroslav Belanský, 81, Minister of Agriculture (1989–91)
29 May Etela Studeníková, 76, archeologist
30 May Milka Zimková, 71, actress
25 June Ján Zvonár, 72, MP (2006–10)
31 July Dušan Velič, 56, chemist.
8 August, Dušan Kaprálik, 75, actor
19 August, Václav Patejdl, 68, musician
28 August, Alojz Rakús, 76, Minister of Health (1990–1992), MP (1990–1992, 1998–2002)
1 October, Patricia Janečková, 25, Opera singer
12 October, Eva Rysová, 91, actress
21 October, Alexander Ilečko, 86, sculptor
25 October, Dobroslav Trnka, 59, lawyer, prosecutor general (2004–2011)
20 November, Martina Lubyová, 56, Minister of Education (2017–2020)
22 November, Barbara Haščáková, 43, singer
14 December
- Tomáš Janovic, 86, writer
- Rudolf Hrubý, 69, businessman and investor