# Robert Fico is appointed prime minister of Slovakia for a fourth time

Date: 2023

## The fact

On 25 October 2023 [Robert Fico](/people/robert-fico) was appointed prime minister after Smer’s 30 September election and a coalition with Hlas and SNS.

## Context

Peter Pellegrini is an unresolved person candidate. This run does not mint him. A certified appointment is procedure, not a unique 2023 GDP print.

30 September election; 25 October appointment; 8 November stocks halt. Store 25 October as the opening certificate. Keep Robert Fico is appointed prime minister of Slovakia for a fourth time on 2023-10-25 separate from neighbouring 25 October 2023 appointment, 8 November 2023 stocks halt, 2024 criminal-code, RTVS-to-STVR, and 15 May 2024 shooting instruments.

A Slovak prime minister chairs Cabinet and sits in the European Council. The National Council enacts. Prosecutors and courts judge. That office is not authorship of a journalist’s murder unless a court says so, not authorship of a 15 May 2024 shooting by another person, and not conversion of a prior-government Kiel allocation into this Contribution.

## Evidence and sources

Government Office of the Slovak Republic carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is a completed fourth-term appointment, the office from which later 2023–24 instruments were issued.

## What is established and what is not

Established: Fico was appointed prime minister on 25 October 2023.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Pellegrini’s Hlas sat in the coalition and is unresolved.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Robert Fico is appointed prime minister of Slovakia for a fourth time, not a later speech about Robert Fico is appointed prime minister of Slovakia for a fourth time.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Robert Fico is appointed prime minister of Slovakia for a fourth time on 2023-10-25 is not a licence to treat every later Government Office of the Slovak Republic communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Robert Fico is appointed prime minister of Slovakia for a fourth time into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to The president appointed; parliament supported the coalition. Pellegrini’s Hlas sat in the coalition and is unresolved. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Robert Fico: https://factrail.ai/people/robert-fico

## Drivers

- Capacity for Peaceful Transfer of Power: https://factrail.ai/drivers/capacity-for-peaceful-transfer-of-power

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/slovakias-fico-appointed-prime-minister-2023-10-25/
- https://www.vlada.gov.sk/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/sk-fico-pm-2023