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.

Early life
Pčolinský was born in 1982 in the village of Nižný Hrabovec, close to Vranov nad Topľou. He studied management at the Comenius University.

Activism and political career
Pčolinský was an aide to the interior ministers Vladimír Palko and Daniel Lipšic.

In 2012, Pčolinský was one of the organizers of the anti-corruption protests sparked by the Gorilla scandal. 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.

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.

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.

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