Ján Nosko

He directed the children's hospital in Banská Bystrica from 2008 to 2014 and has been mayor of Banská Bystrica since 2014, elected as an independent. He is named among the possible contenders for the 2026 Banská Bystrica mayoral election.

Career

The Slovak Wikipedia says Nosko, a physician (MUDr.), has worked as a paediatrician and cardiologist since 1986 and directed the Detská fakultná nemocnica s poliklinikou in Banská Bystrica from 2008 to 2014. In 2014 he stood as an independent and won the mayoralty with 9,739 votes against the incumbent Peter Gogola, who had 4,248. His candidacy was supported by Smer-SD, SDKÚ-DS, SNS and SMS. He was re-elected in 2018 and in 2022, when he took 66.2 percent of the vote, 16,248 votes.

Positions

When he announced his 2022 candidacy for a third term, TASR reported his priorities as regulating parking and building parking garages, taking the Dom kultúry into city ownership, revitalising courtyards in seven housing estates, renovating the city park and the park at the Radvanský château, transparent city governance, and using nearly 50 million euros of sustainable urban development funds.

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