Martin Poliačik

Martin Poliačik (born 27 June 1980) is a Slovak politician. He is a member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic. and Progressive Slovakia.

Early life and education
Poliačik studied at University of Trnava between 1999 and 2006, where he earned Magister in philosophy. He worked as an executive director of Slovak Debate Association between 2003 and 2005, as well as a teacher at private school Montessori between 2009 and 2010.

Freedom and Solidarity
Poliačik is one of the founding members of a classical liberal political party Freedom and Solidarity. In the National Council, he is a member of Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee and Committee on Education, Science, Youth and Sports.

In November 2017, Poliačik announced that he left Freedom and Solidarity as the party did not sufficiently communicate its pro-European orientation and support for democracy. He became a member of Progressive Slovakia one month later. At the time of his departure, it was not confirmed whether Poliačik was still the chairman of the Committee for Incompatibility of Functions.

Slovak parliamentary elections
In the 2010 Slovak parliamentary election, Poliačik finished 11th place of the candidates. With the raise of 4,893 preferential votes and promotion of four members of Ordinary People and Independent Personalities, he finished 15th in the parliament. During a session in 2012, his parliamentary colleague Igor Matovič threw syringes at him.

In the 2012 Slovak parliamentary election, Poliačik ran from the ninth place on the list of Freedom and Solidarity candidates. He finished eighth place by winning 7,595 preferential votes.

In the 2016 Slovak parliamentary election, Poliačik came in eighth place as a candidate of Freedom and Solidarity. He finished fifth place and won a parliamentary mandate by gaining 45,914 votes. At the tenth party congress one year later, Poliačik was elected as one of the twelve members of the party's Republican Council, with Richard Sulík supporting him despite their bad relationships.

In the 2020 Slovak parliamentary election, Poliačik was the 16th candidate of the Democrats coalition. He received 10,969 votes in the election after taking preferential votes into account, and was ranked tenth among the candidates. Due to the result of coalition, Poliačik did not enter the parliament.

Political views
In an interview with Denník N, Poliačik described his positions as centrist and neoliberal with a combination of the use of public resources, which he called inclusive capitalism.