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Minorities: what each party thinks

4 questions, 48 party positions and 2 complete disagreements (how they are assigned).

What each party proposes on this issue

A summary of their positions on the questions in this issue, based on their manifestos, votes and statements. Details and sources, question by question, below.

Smer

Disagrees: “In municipalities with a large Hungarian population, Hungarian should be an official language alongside Slovak”; “The 2025 law that makes it a crime to question the Beneš decrees should be repealed”; “People who acquire another country's citizenship should be able to keep their Slovak citizenship”

In between: “The state should invest more in integrating marginalised Roma communities, for example in pre-school education and housing”

PS

Agrees: “In municipalities with a large Hungarian population, Hungarian should be an official language alongside Slovak”; “The 2025 law that makes it a crime to question the Beneš decrees should be repealed”; “People who acquire another country's citizenship should be able to keep their Slovak citizenship”; “The state should invest more in integrating marginalised Roma communities, for example in pre-school education and housing”

Hlas

Agrees: “The state should invest more in integrating marginalised Roma communities, for example in pre-school education and housing”

Disagrees: “In municipalities with a large Hungarian population, Hungarian should be an official language alongside Slovak”; “The 2025 law that makes it a crime to question the Beneš decrees should be repealed”

In between: “People who acquire another country's citizenship should be able to keep their Slovak citizenship”

Hnutie Slovensko

Agrees: “The 2025 law that makes it a crime to question the Beneš decrees should be repealed”; “People who acquire another country's citizenship should be able to keep their Slovak citizenship”; “The state should invest more in integrating marginalised Roma communities, for example in pre-school education and housing”

In between: “In municipalities with a large Hungarian population, Hungarian should be an official language alongside Slovak”

KDH

Agrees: “People who acquire another country's citizenship should be able to keep their Slovak citizenship”; “The state should invest more in integrating marginalised Roma communities, for example in pre-school education and housing”

Disagrees: “In municipalities with a large Hungarian population, Hungarian should be an official language alongside Slovak”

In between: “The 2025 law that makes it a crime to question the Beneš decrees should be repealed”

SaS

Agrees: “The 2025 law that makes it a crime to question the Beneš decrees should be repealed”; “People who acquire another country's citizenship should be able to keep their Slovak citizenship”; “The state should invest more in integrating marginalised Roma communities, for example in pre-school education and housing”

In between: “In municipalities with a large Hungarian population, Hungarian should be an official language alongside Slovak”

SNS

Disagrees: “In municipalities with a large Hungarian population, Hungarian should be an official language alongside Slovak”; “The 2025 law that makes it a crime to question the Beneš decrees should be repealed”; “People who acquire another country's citizenship should be able to keep their Slovak citizenship”

In between: “The state should invest more in integrating marginalised Roma communities, for example in pre-school education and housing”

Republika

Disagrees: “In municipalities with a large Hungarian population, Hungarian should be an official language alongside Slovak”; “People who acquire another country's citizenship should be able to keep their Slovak citizenship”; “The state should invest more in integrating marginalised Roma communities, for example in pre-school education and housing”

In between: “The 2025 law that makes it a crime to question the Beneš decrees should be repealed”

Maďarská aliancia

Agrees: “In municipalities with a large Hungarian population, Hungarian should be an official language alongside Slovak”; “The 2025 law that makes it a crime to question the Beneš decrees should be repealed”; “People who acquire another country's citizenship should be able to keep their Slovak citizenship”; “The state should invest more in integrating marginalised Roma communities, for example in pre-school education and housing”

Demokrati

Agrees: “People who acquire another country's citizenship should be able to keep their Slovak citizenship”; “The state should invest more in integrating marginalised Roma communities, for example in pre-school education and housing”

In between: “In municipalities with a large Hungarian population, Hungarian should be an official language alongside Slovak”; “The 2025 law that makes it a crime to question the Beneš decrees should be repealed”

Sme rodina

Disagrees: “In municipalities with a large Hungarian population, Hungarian should be an official language alongside Slovak”; “The 2025 law that makes it a crime to question the Beneš decrees should be repealed”; “People who acquire another country's citizenship should be able to keep their Slovak citizenship”

In between: “The state should invest more in integrating marginalised Roma communities, for example in pre-school education and housing”

Právo na pravdu

Disagrees: “In municipalities with a large Hungarian population, Hungarian should be an official language alongside Slovak”; “The 2025 law that makes it a crime to question the Beneš decrees should be repealed”; “The state should invest more in integrating marginalised Roma communities, for example in pre-school education and housing”

In between: “People who acquire another country's citizenship should be able to keep their Slovak citizenship”

In municipalities with a large Hungarian population, Hungarian should be an official language alongside Slovak.

Slovak is the state language. In municipalities where a minority makes up at least 15% of the population in two consecutive censuses, its members can use their language in dealings with the authorities, for example in written submissions and replies. According to the 2021 census, 8.5% of the population has Hungarian as their mother tongue.

Of the 12 parties with a position on this question: 2 in favour, 3 in between and 7 against.

The 2025 law that makes it a crime to question the Beneš decrees should be repealed.

Since December 2025 the Criminal Code has punished with up to six months in prison publicly denying or questioning the post-war settlement based on legal acts of the Czechoslovak Republic or the Slovak National Council. These acts include the 1945 Beneš decrees, under which most Hungarians and Germans lost their citizenship and property.

Of the 12 parties with a position on this question: 4 in favour, 3 in between and 5 against.

People who acquire another country's citizenship should be able to keep their Slovak citizenship.

Today, anyone who voluntarily acquires another citizenship loses their Slovak one. The exceptions are acquiring it through marriage, birth or as a child, or after living in that country for at least five years.

Of the 12 parties with a position on this question: 6 in favour, 2 in between and 4 against.

The state should invest more in integrating marginalised Roma communities, for example in pre-school education and housing.

According to the 2019 Atlas of Roma Communities, about 405,000 people in Slovakia live in 949 places with concentrations of marginalised Roma communities. Integration covers areas such as pre-school education, housing, health and work.

Of the 12 parties with a position on this question: 7 in favour, 3 in between and 2 against.

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