Peter Pčolinský

Peter Pčolinský (born 6 April 1982) is a Slovak activist and politician. Since 2016, he has been a member of the National Council and, since 2020, its deputy speaker. He is among the co-founders of the We are Family party.

Peter Pčolinský
Member of the National Council
Assumed office
5 March 2016
Personal details
Born (1982-04-06) 6 April 1982
Nižný Hrabovec, Czechoslovakia
Political partyWe Are Family
SpouseAdriana Pčolinská
Alma materComenius University

Early life

Pčolinský was born in 1982 in the village of Nižný Hrabovec, close to Vranov nad Topľou.[1] He studied management at the Comenius University.[2]

Activism and political career

Pčolinský was an aide to the interior ministers Vladimír Palko and Daniel Lipšic.[3]

In 2012, Pčolinský was one of the organizers of the anti-corruption protests sparked by the Gorilla scandal.[4] In 2015, he co-founded, with Milan Krajniak, the 300 Movement, named after the 300 Spartans who heroically fell in the Battle of Thermopylae. Later that year, Pčolinský, Krajniak and Boris Kollár took over a minor political party called NÁŠ KRAJ (OUR REGION) over the objections of some in the party leadership and transformed it into the We are Family party.[5]

Pčolinský was elected to the parliament on the We are Family list in 2016 and 2020 Slovak parliamentary elections. In October 2020, he was elected a deputy chairman of the National Council.[6]

Personal life

His brother, Vladimír Pčolinský, was the director of the Slovak Information Service from 2020 until his arrest for alleged bribery in 2021. Peter Pčolinský defended his brother following the arrest and blamed the interior affairs minister Roman Mikulec for plotting against him.[7]

His sister in law, Adriana Pčolinská, is also a Sme Rodina MP.[1]

References
  1. Karolyi, Dušan (13 July 2021). "Marcela Pčolinská, matka exriaditeľa SIS: Ak by mal Vlado vo väzbe klímu a Netflix, bol by spokojný" [Marcela Pčolinská, mother of the ex-director of SIS: If Vlado had air conditioning and Netflix in custody, he would be satisfied]. Denník N (in Slovak). Retrieved 27 March 2023.
  2. "Profily členov poslaneckého klubu Sme rodina" [Profiles of members of the parliamentary club We are a family]. Teraz (in Slovak). 24 March 2020.
  3. Tódová, Monika (6 March 2016). "Kto sú jedenásti poslanci Borisa Kollára? Tu sú ich profily" [Who are Boris Kollár's eleven deputies? Here are their profiles]. Denník N (in Slovak). Retrieved 27 March 2023.
  4. "Demonštranti pri NR SR narazili na ťažkoodencov" [Demonstrators at the NR SR ran into heavy-handed people]. Teraz (in Slovak). 29 February 2012.
  5. Frank, Michal (16 November 2015). "Členovia a expredsedníčka strany Náš kraj sa dištancujú od Kollára" [Members and ex-president of the Náš kraj party distance themselves from Kollár]. Korzár Prešov (in Slovak).
  6. "Poslanci zvolili P. Pčolinského za podpredsedu parlamentu" [The deputies elected P. Pčolinski as the deputy speaker of the parliament]. Teraz (in Slovak). 19 October 2022.
  7. "P. Pčolinský bude hlasovať za odvolanie Mikulca z funkcie ministra" [P. Pčolinský will vote for Mikulec's dismissal from the post of minister]. Teraz (in Slovak). 22 February 2022.
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