Martin Winkler

He is a critic of the sitting mayor Matúš Vallo. He is the Danube party's candidate for mayor of Bratislava in the election of 24 October 2026.

Career

Winkler sits on the Bratislava city council and on the regional council. In November 2025 he announced the new party Danube, registered on 17 November, which plans to contest the 2026 municipal elections mainly in the capital, with its first borough candidates for Old Town and Podunajské Biskupice.

Positions

Danube's announced priorities, as TASR reports them, are more efficient management of the city, a stronger city police and better security, improved public transport, closer oversight of cycle path construction, a revised parking policy, moving the Vajanského embankment cycle path nearer to the Danube and restoring two lanes in each direction, and no tax increases. Winkler has said he would not stop projects begun under Vallo but do them faster and cheaper, and that he would not pursue retribution against anyone.

Summarised automatically from the linked sources. TASR