24 Facts About Eduard Heger

Eduard Heger previously served as the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance in the cabinet of Igor Matovic.

Eduard Heger was born in 1976 in Bratislava to parents employed in culture.

Eduard Heger's family was not religious, but Heger embraced Catholic charismatic renewal as a young adult after the death of his father.

In 1999, Eduard Heger graduated in Trade and Management at the University of Economics in Bratislava.

Eduard Heger held junior managerial positions at several small companies earlier, including several restaurants and bathroom accessory producer Intercomp.

Between 2001 and 2005, Eduard Heger worked as a junior consultant for Cubic Corporation on a military modernization project for the Slovak Ministry of Defence.

Eduard Heger spent about 18 months in the United States and became acquainted with Juraj Droba, who later went on to become the Governor of the Bratislava Region a prominent liberal politician in Slovakia.

At Old Nassau, Eduard Heger was responsible for production and marketing until his entry to politics.

In 2016, Eduard Heger was persuaded to run for an MP seat by prominent figures of the Slovak Charismatic movement Branislav Skripek and Richard Vasecka, who were themselves active in politics.

Eduard Heger presented 173 bills and spoke 680 times in Parliament.

Eduard Heger was OLaNO's shadow Minister of Finance and drafted the party's "Program for Sound Public Finances" of his party and presented a set of measures to combat bureaucracy.

Eduard Heger participated in and organised several anti-corruption and anti-government protests.

Eduard Heger was elected by preferential votes, having received nearly 63,000 personal votes.

On 7 March 2023, Eduard Heger announced his departure from OLaNO to take over the extra-parliamentary Blue Coalition party, subsequently rebranded as Democrats.

On 7 May 2023, Eduard Heger announced his resignation as prime minister after several ministers had resigned a few days prior.

Eduard Heger's plans were met with a strong backlash on social media, where claims that a massive hike of real estate tax was imminent mushroomed.

Eduard Heger called these claims a "hoax" and stated his reform will not increase the overall tax burden but rather provide incentives for families and businesses to work and invest by decreasing the income tax.

Eduard Heger is a staunch supporter of Ukraine in its defense against the Russian invasion.

Slovakia provided major arms deliveries, including its sole S-300 missile system to Ukraine and Eduard Heger personally lobbied EU leaders for Ukrainian membership in the EU.

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Eduard Heger explained that his support for Ukraine is due to his belief that if Ukraine was allowed to fall, Slovakia would be next in line to be invaded by Russia.

In February 2023, Eduard Heger expressed that he would be willing to send Slovak professional combat troops to fight in Ukraine as part of Slovakia's alliance commitments.

Seventeen EU member states condemned this Hungarian law as discriminatory, but Eduard Heger did not condemn it.

Eduard Heger is staunchly anti-abortion stating that the human life begins at conception.

Eduard Heger is a devout Charismatic Catholic and in his free time he worked in several functions in the Catholic Church of Slovakia.