Igor Choma

He was mayor of Žilina from 2010 to 2018 and has been state secretary at the Ministry of Transport since October 2023. He is a candidate for Governor of the Žilina Region in the 2026 election, backed by Smer-SD, Hlas-SD and Domov.

Career

Slovak Wikipedia records that Choma graduated in civil engineering in Bratislava in 1987 and worked at Váhostav until 1996. He was a commercial representative of the Foreign Ministry in Moscow, then headed the National Motorway Company from 2006 to 2010 and was government plenipotentiary for road construction from 2007 to 2010. He sat in the National Council in 2010–2012 and 2016–2020, was mayor of Žilina from 2010 to 2018, lost the 2022 election for chair of the Žilina region, and became state secretary at the Transport Ministry on 25 October 2023.

Positions

Choma's 2026 campaign motto is "At home across the whole region". In an interview carried by noviny.sk he put saving public transport first. He proposes free regional transport for students and pupils and mobile clinics for villages. During a JOJ 24 debate fellow candidate Adam Lučanský withdrew in his favour.

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