Eduard Heger

Eduard Heger
Heger in 2022
Prime Minister of Slovakia
In office
1 April 2021 – 15 May 2023
PresidentZuzana Čaputová
Deputy
See list
  • Štefan Holý
  • Veronika Remišová
  • Igor Matovič
  • Richard Sulík
Preceded byIgor Matovič
Succeeded byĽudovít Ódor
Deputy Prime Minister of Slovakia
In office
21 March 2020 – 1 April 2021
Prime MinisterIgor Matovič
Other positions in the executive
Minister of Health
Acting
3 March 2023 – 15 May 2023
Prime MinisterHimself
Preceded byVladimír Lengvarský
Succeeded byMichal Palkovič
Acting
12 March 2021 – 1 April 2021
Prime MinisterIgor Matovič
Preceded byMarek Krajčí
Succeeded byVladimír Lengvarský
Minister of Finance
Acting
23 December 2022 – 15 May 2023
Prime MinisterHimself
Preceded byIgor Matovič
Succeeded byMichal Horváth
In office
21 March 2020 – 1 April 2021
Prime MinisterIgor Matovič
Preceded byLadislav Kamenický
Succeeded byIgor Matovič
Minister of Education, Science, Research and Sport
Acting
13 September 2022 – 4 October 2022
Prime MinisterHimself
Preceded byBranislav Gröhling
Succeeded byJán Horecký
Acting
25 March 2021 – 1 April 2021
Prime MinisterIgor Matovič
Preceded byBranislav Gröhling
Succeeded byBranislav Gröhling
Member of the National Council
In office
15 May 2023 – 25 October 2023
In office
23 March 2016 – 21 March 2020
Chairman of Democrats
In office
7 March 2023 – 2 December 2023
Preceded byMiroslav Kollár
Succeeded byJaroslav Naď
Personal details
Born (1976-05-03) 3 May 1976 (age 48)
Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
(now Slovakia)
Political partyDemocrats (since 2023)
Other political
affiliations
Ordinary People and Independent Personalities (until 2023)
Spouse
Lucia Hegerová
(m. 2005)
Children4
Alma materUniversity of Economics in Bratislava (Ing.)
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Eduard Heger (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈeduard ˈɦeɡer]; born 3 May 1976) is a Slovak politician, who served as the Prime Minister of Slovakia from 1 April 2021 to 15 May 2023.[1] He previously served as the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance in the cabinet of Igor Matovič. Heger was a member of the presidium of the Ordinary People and Independent Personalities (OĽaNO) party which he left in March 2023 to take over the extra-parliamentary Blue Coalition party, subsequently rebranded as Democrats.

  1. ^ Stoklasa, Radovan; Hovet, Jason (7 May 2023). "Slovakia prime minister quits". Reuters.