Milan Uhrík

Milan Uhrík (born 21 December 1984) is a Slovak politician, MEP and the leader of the Republic Movement. A former non-inscrit, he is now a part of the ESN group in the European Parliament. He is a former deputy of the National Council of the Slovak Republic for the far-right People's Party Our Slovakia (ĽSNS)^[1] and member of the Foreign Committee of the Slovak Republic.^[2]

Milan Uhrík MEP
Milan Uhrík in 2024
Member of the European Parliament for Slovakia
Incumbent
Assumed office 2 July 2019
Member of the National Council
In office 23 March 2016 – 1 July 2019
Chair of Republic Movement
Incumbent
Assumed office 9 March 2021
Preceded by	Office established
Personal details
Born	(1984-12-21) 21 December 1984 (age 40)[1] Komjatice, Czechoslovakia
Nationality	Slovak
Political party	Republic (since 2021)
Other political affiliations	SDKÚ (2010) ĽSNS (until 2021)
Spouse	Zuzana Uhríková
Children	2
Residence(s)	Nitra, Slovakia
Website	https://www.milanuhrik.sk/

Political career

In 2010, Uhrík ran for the position of local councillor in the municipality of Komjatice for the liberal-conservative SDKÚ party.^[3] Uhrík was elected a member of the European Parliament in 2019 for the far-right neo-Nazi ĽSNS party.^[4] He stayed until 2021, when he founded his own party, the far-right and neo-fascist Republic.^[5][6]

In the 2016 Slovak parliamentary elections, Uhrík received 10,568 votes after being elected as a member of the NRSR and received 10,568 preferential votes, finishing fifth place out of 14 elected members for the nationalist party ĽSNS.^[7]

On 7 August 2017, Uhrík announced that he would run for the post of chairman of the Nitra self-governing region.^[8] Uhrík was elected as a deputy of the Nitra self-governing region for electoral district No. 3.^[9] Apart from Marian Kotleba, he is the only regional deputy elected for his party.^[10]

In the 2019 European Parliament elections, Uhrík was elected as a member of the European Parliament for the ĽSNS party. He circled from the 14th place of the candidate to the first place by winning 42,779 preferential votes.^[11]

Together with other defectors from ĽSNS, Uhrík took over the HLAS ĽUDU party (originally Movement for Democracy) from Peter Marček and transformed the party into the Republic movement in March 2021, of which he subsequently became the chairman.^[12]

Personal life

Apart from his native Slovak, Uhrík can speak English, German, and Russian.^[13] He is married to Zuzana Uhríková, fellow member of Republic political party.^[14] Together, the couple has two children and lives in Nitra. Uhrík is a Catholic.

References

1. "Ing. Milan Uhrík, PhD" (in Slovak). Národná Rada Slovenskej Republiky. Archived from the original on 22 August 2017.
2. "Zahraničný výbor NRSR". nrsr.sk (in Slovak).
3. "Milan Uhrík za SDKÚ aj kandidoval. Prehovoril človek, ktorý s ním bol medzi Dzurindovými mladými". Aktuality.sk (in Slovak). 25 August 2023.
4. "Noví europoslanci: PS a Spolu majú štyroch, Smer má troch, kotlebovci dvoch" (in Slovak). trend.sk. Archived from the original on 27 May 2019.
5. "Uhríkova nová strana sa volá Republika. Odmieta byť klonom ĽSNS". Aktuality.sk (in Slovak). 9 May 2021. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
6. "ĽSNS sa štiepi, Uhrík, Mazurek, Ďurica či Suja odchádzajú po konflikte s Kotlebom" (in Slovak). Denník N. 26 January 2021.
7. "Voľby do Národnej rady SR 2016" (in Slovak). Slovak Statistical Office. 29 March 2022.
8. "Za nitrianskeho župana kandiduje aj kotlebovec Uhrík". Aktuality.sk (in Slovak). 7 August 2017.
9. "Voľby do VÚC 2017: Nitriansky kraj - konečné výsledky". Aktuality.sk (in Slovak). 5 November 2017. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
10. Mikušovič, Dušan (5 November 2017). "Kotleba vyhorel: stratil 25-tisíc hlasov, prišiel o župu a má len dvoch poslancov" (in Slovak). Denník N.
11. Gabrižová, Zuzana (27 May 2019). "Konečné výsledky eurovolieb 2019 na Slovensku". Euractiv (in Slovak). Retrieved 10 June 2019.
12. "Odídenci od Kotlebu už prevzali od exposlanca" (in Slovak). Denník N. 9 March 2021.
13. Kyseľ, Tomáš (14 August 2023). "Kto je Milan Uhrík: Nebil sa, ale študoval, ovláda tri jazyky a má plán. Muž, ktorý odstavil Kotlebu". Aktuality.sk (in Slovak).
14. Mogilevskaia, Anna (8 August 2023). "Kto sú ženy našich politikov? Uhríková financuje hnutie, z Ficovej je maklérka a Kollárove ženy mu kazia kampaň". Pravda (in Slovak).