Marián Porvažník

A 2026 memorandum between PS, the Democrats and other parties set out how a joint candidate would be chosen. He is the candidate for Governor of the Košice Region in the 2026 election, backed by a coalition of eight opposition parties.

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The news agency TASR reported on 13 April 2026 that Progressive Slovakia and the Democrats signed a memorandum in Košice, with other parties, to back one shared candidate for chair of the Košice Self-Governing Region. It named Porvažník, from PS, and Karel Hirman, from the Democrats, as the two candidates, and said the one with better prospects in polls would become the joint candidate. Later TASR reporting names Porvažník as the candidate of a coalition of PS, Hnutie Slovensko, SaS, KDH, Demokrati, Za ľudí, OKS and DS-ODS for the election of 24 October 2026.

Summarised automatically from the linked sources. TASR · TASR (teraz.sk)