2023 in Slovakia

Events in the year 2023 in Slovakia.

Incumbents

 * President: Zuzana Čaputová
 * Prime Minister: Eduard Heger (until 15 May), Ľudovít Ódor (15 May to 25 October), Robert Fico (starting 25 October)

Events

 * January 21: 2023 Slovakian constitutional referendum: Slovakians vote in a referendum to determine whether early elections can be called before the customary end of the mandate.
 * January 22: Members of former government coalition agree to hold early election on September 30 2023, before the end of the parliamentary term in February 2024.
 * February 23: Four people are killed after a plane crashes near Trenčianske Stankovce, Trenčín Region.
 * May 7 President Zuzana Čaputová appoints a technocratic cabinet due to long-term political crisis started by the government losing a vote of confidence in December 2022.
 * September 15 : The Slovak government ends the State of Emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic declared on 11 March 2020.
 * September 30: 2023 Slovak parliamentary election: Slovaks go to the polls to elect 150 members of the National Council.
 * October 11: Smer leader Robert Fico agrees to form a coalition government with the left-wing Hlas and ultranationalist Slovak National Party, paving the way for Fico to become Prime Minister of Slovakia for a fourth time.
 * October 25: President Zuzana Čaputová inaugurates the Fico's Fourth Cabinet
 * November 21: The Fico's Fourth Cabinet passes the confidence vote in the parliament.

Deaths

 * 7 January: Miroslav Celler, 31, squash player.
 * 19 January Aranka Szentpétery, 89, actress
 * 23 January: Jozef Dravecký, 75, diplomat.
 * 1 February: Jozef Čapla, 84, ice hockey player (HC Slovan Bratislava, HC Dukla Jihlava, Augsburger EV).
 * 13 February Milan Hamada, 89, Literary critic.
 * 21 February Eva Siracká, 96, physician, president of the League Against Cancer
 * 31 March Stanislav Párnický, 77, movie director
 * 5 May Ján Vilikovský, 85, translator and diplomat, ambassador to the UK (1992–1996)
 * 23 May Alojz Tkáč, 89, Archbishop of Košice (1995–2010)
 * 24 May Dano Heriban, 43, Actor
 * 27 May Miroslav Belanský, 81, Minister of Agriculture (1989–91)
 * 29 May Etela Studeníková, 76, archeologist
 * 30 May Milka Zimková, 71, actress
 * 25 June Ján Zvonár, 72, MP (2006–10)
 * 31 July Dušan Velič, 56, chemist.
 * 8 August, Dušan Kaprálik, 75, actor
 * 19 August, Václav Patejdl, 68, musician
 * 28 August, Alojz Rakús, 76, Minister of Health (1990–1992), MP (1990–1992, 1998–2002)
 * 1 October, Patricia Janečková, 25, Opera singer
 * 12 October, Eva Rysová, 91, actress
 * 21 October, Alexander Ilečko, 86, sculptor
 * 25 October, Dobroslav Trnka, 59, lawyer, prosecutor general (2004–2011)
 * 20 November, Martina Lubyová, 56, Minister of Education (2017–2020)
 * 22 November, Barbara Haščáková, 43, singer
 * 14 December
 * Tomáš Janovic, 86, writer
 * Rudolf Hrubý, 69, businessman and investor