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František Oľha

František Oľha

František Oľha, born on 19 October 1970 in Prešov, is a Slovak engineer, entrepreneur, teacher and politician, deputy chair of the party Demokrati since December 2023.

Born
1970 (55 years), Prešov
Party
Democrats

74%Probability · Prešov Mayoral Election Winner 2026

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He has been mayor of Prešov since November 2022 and is the incumbent seeking re-election in the 2026 Prešov mayoral election.

Career

Oľha became a Prešov city councillor after the 2018 local elections, in which he finished fifth in the mayoral race. He finished sixth in the 2017 race for governor of the Prešov Region and stood in the 2020 parliamentary election for ŠANCA on the MOST–HÍD list. He took office as the sixth mayor of Prešov in November 2022. On 7 May 2026 he announced a re-election bid, backed by Demokrati and Progressive Slovakia.

Positions

TASR reports that he points to a completed skatepark and a new football stadium and says work has begun on a national equestrian centre. He wants to revive a public swimming pool as part of a phased multi-sport complex, renovate the Scala cinema and modernise the city's traffic signals.

Summarised automatically from the linked sources. Wikipedia (Slovak) · TASR

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Prešov Mayoral Election Winner 2026

OutcomeProbability
František Oľha74%
Rastislav Mochnacký15%
Pavel Hagyari8%
Artúr Benes5%
Martin Eštočák4%

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