Marek Krajčí

Marek Krajčí (born 24 March 1974) is a Slovak politician.

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Marek Krajčí


Minister of Health
In office 21 March 2020 – 12 March 2021
President	Zuzana Čaputová
Preceded by	Peter Pellegrini
Succeeded by	Eduard Heger (acting) Vladimír Lengvarský
Member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic
In office 23 March 2016 – 21 March 2020

Personal details
Born	(1974-03-24) 24 March 1974 (age 51) Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia)
Political party	Ordinary People
Spouse	Kamila Krajčíová
Children	6

Krajčí served as deputy in the National Council from 2016 to 2020 as OĽaNO candidate.^[1]^[2] Following his resignation, he returned to the parliament.^[3]

Amidst pressure from the public and rival political parties on 11 March 2021, he announced his intentions to resign as Minister of Health of Slovakia.^[4]

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2016 and 2020 Slovak parliamentary elections

Krajčí ran 2016 Slovak parliamentary election from fourth place as an independent OĽaNO candidate.^[5] He received 31,781 preferential votes and was elected as a member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic.^[6]

During the 2020 Slovak parliamentary election, Krajčí received 143rd place on OĽANO candidate list.^[7] He received 35,515^[8] preferential votes and was elected.^[9] On 21 October 2020, Krajčí served as Minister of Health of Slovakia in Matovič's Cabinet.^[10]

Minister of Health

In 2020, Krajčí managed to enforce a strict curfew and approve a COVID-19 machine.^[11] However, the situation did not improve for two months as expected.^[12]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Krajčí deployed Peter Stachura to manage the reprofiling of the hospital bed pool.^[13] Krajčí made sure affordable health care for people with COVID-19 by gradually sending the hospital bed pool and managing patient transfers.^[14]

Together with Igor Matovič, Krajčí secured the Russian Sputnik V vaccine for Slovakia, which they welcomed together at Košice Airport on 1 March 2020.^[15] This escalated long-standing tensions between the main representatives of the coalition and finally led to the outbreak of a government crisis.^[16]

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Political career

2016 and 2020 Slovak parliamentary elections

Minister of Health

Personal life

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