2015 in Slovakia

Incumbents

Head of State

• President – Andrej Kiska

  Government

• Speaker of the National Council – Peter Pellegrini
• Prime Minister – Robert Fico
• Minister of Foreign Affairs – Miroslav Lanjčák
• Minister of Interior – Robert Kaliňák
• Minister of Finance – Peter Kažimír
• Minister of Defence – Martin Glváč

  Major parties' leaders

• Direction – Social Democracy – Robert Fico
• Christian Democratic Movement – Ján Figeľ
• Ordinary People and Independent Personalities – Igor Matovič
• Most–Híd – Béla Bugár
• Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party – Pavol Frešo
• Freedom and Solidarity – Richard Sulík

• Network – Radoslav Procházka
• Slovak Civic Coalition – Juraj Miškov
• Slovak National Party – Andrej Danko
• Party of the Hungarian Community – József Berényi

  Other state leading representatives

• Head of the Constitutional Court of Slovakia – Ivetta Macejková

  Chairpersons of Self-governing Regions

• Bratislava Self-governing Region – Pavol Frešo
• Trnava Self-governing Region – Tibor Mikuš
• Trenčín Self-governing Region – Jaroslav Baška
• Nitra Self-governing Region – Milan Belica
• Banská Bystrica Self-governing Region – Marian Kotleba
• Žilina Self-governing Region – Juraj Blanár
• Košice Self-governing Region – Zdenko Trebuľa
• Prešov Self-governing Region – Peter Chudík

  Events

January

• January 1 – President Andrej Kiska in his New Year's speech stressed need to fight corruption, need for political activism, reducing bureaucracy. Kiska also described situation in Ukraine as a breach of Ukrainian territorial sovereignty and interference with the political independence of the country.
• January 27 – 46th Session of the National Council

  February

• February 1 – Regulation No. 1 of 2015 of the Slovak Republic Ministry of Interior on granting state citizenship of the Slovak Republic for specific reasons came into force. The regulation allows granting the citizenship to former Slovakia's citizens who lost citizenship after January 1, 1993, including those, who lost citizenship due to acquisition of foreign country's citizenship, under the Act No. 250/2010 Coll. of laws Amending and Supplementing the Act No. 40/1993 on State Citizenship
• February 7 – 2015 Slovak same-sex marriage referendum failed with only 21.4% of citizens casting a vote
• February 18 – 47th Session of the National Council

  Deaths

January

• 1 January – Drahoslav Machala, writer and journalist
• 2 January – Arpád Račko, sculptor

  February

• 1 February – Martin Ťapák, film director, actor, dancer and choreographer
• 15 February – Michal Benčík, lawyer, politician of former Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and later Party of the Democratic Left, member of Czechoslovak Federal Assembly and Slovak National Council

  March

• 15 March – Ján Kulich, sculptor
• 15 March – Marián Mikluš, army major-general and Chief of the General Staff in 1998
• 22 March – Peter Pišťanek, writer
• 26 March – Kornel Földvári, poet, journalist, art and literature critic and translator
• 27 March – Martin Porubjak, college professor, dramaturge, playwright, theater and film scriptwriter and director
• 29 March – Ivan Niňaj, sports commentator

  April

• 11 April – Braňo Hochel, writer, university associate professor, literary scholar, translator and politician of Democratic Party
• 26 April – Pavol Sedláček, medical doctor, politician of former People's Party – Movement for a Democratic Slovakia and Chairman of Trenčín Self-governing Region in 2006–2013