Peter Pčolinský

Peter Pčolinský (born 6 April 1982) is a Slovak activist and politician. Since 2016, he has served as a Member of the National Council. Since 2020, he has served as the Deputy Speaker of the National Council. 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 served as 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 the 300 Movement, named after the 300 Spartans who heroically fell in the Battle of Thermopylae, with Milan Krajniak. 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 Slovak parliamentary election and 2020 Slovak parliamentary election. In October 2020 he was elected a Deputy Chairman of the National Council.[6]

Personal life

His brother Vladimír Pčolinský served as 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 wife Adriana Pčolinská is also a Sme Rodina MP.[1]

References
  1. Karolyi, Dušan (2021-07-13). "Marcela Pčolinská, matka exriaditeľa SIS: Ak by mal Vlado vo väzbe klímu a Netflix, bol by spokojný". Denník N (in Slovak). Retrieved 2023-03-27.
  2. "Profily členov poslaneckého klubu Sme rodina". TASR. 2020-03-24. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. Tódová, Monika (6 March 2016). "Kto sú jedenásti poslanci Borisa Kollára? Tu sú ich profily". Denník N (in Slovak). Retrieved 27 March 2023.
  4. "Demonštranti pri NR SR narazili na ťažkoodencov". TASR. 2012-02-29. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. "Členovia a expredsedníčka strany Náš kraj sa dištancujú od Kollára". Petit Press. 2015-11-16. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. "Poslanci zvolili P. Pčolinského za podpredsedu parlamentu". TASR. 2022-10-19. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. "P. Pčolinský bude hlasovať za odvolanie Mikulca z funkcie ministra". TASR. 2022-02-22. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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