Jozef Ráž

He previously worked at the defence ministry and at Slovenská pošta. He is an independent candidate for mayor of Bratislava in the 24 October 2026 municipal election, challenging the incumbent Matúš Vallo.

Career

Wikipedia gives Ráž's birth date as 17 July 1979 in Bratislava and says he studied international business at the University of Economics in Bratislava and law at the Bratislava University of Law. He worked at the defence ministry from 2005 to 2010, joined the board of Slovenská pošta in 2010 and from 2016 was chief of staff to health minister Tomáš Drucker. After 2018 he withdrew from public life to run a catering business. On 25 October 2023 he became Minister of Transport, succeeding Pavol Lančarič, in the fourth government of Robert Fico. TASR describes him as Smer-SD's nominee for that post.

Positions

Announcing his candidacy on 22 June 2026, Ráž told a press conference, as TASR reports, that he runs as an independent, not for any party or against anyone, and that no party will finance his campaign, which he will pay for from his own resources. He names transport, housing construction and public safety as his priorities and says Bratislava needs concrete solutions rather than ideology and political disputes.

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