Roman Mikulec
Roman Mikulec (born March 18, 1972) is a Slovak politician and former soldier who served as Slovakia’s Interior Minister from March 21, 2020, to May 15, 2023. He was replaced by Ivan Šimko in 2023.
He was born in Bratislava, then part of Czechoslovakia. He studied at the Military Air Force Academy in Košice, earning a master’s degree in 1994, and later earned an MSc in law, economics and management from the Brno International Business School. He started as a fighter pilot and in 1997 joined Slovakia’s Military Intelligence Service, eventually becoming its director. In 2013 he faced charges of sabotage, defamation and disclosing classified information, but he was acquitted in 2019.
In the 2020 parliamentary election he ran with Ordinary People and Independent Personalities, an anti-corruption party, and was elected to the National Council with 7,435 preferential votes. He became Interior Minister on March 21, 2020.
Mikulec survived two no-confidence motions: on September 20, 2022 (58 for, 48 against, 39 abstentions) and on December 1, 2022 (71 for, 47 against, 23 abstentions). The government of Igor Matovič and Eduard Heger fell in December 2022, and a technocratic caretaker government was formed in May 2023 by Ľudovít Ódor. Mikulec was succeeded as interior minister by Ivan Šimko.
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