Gabriela Matečná | |
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Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development | |
In office 23 March 2016 – 21 March 2020 | |
Prime Minister |
Robert Fico Peter Pellegrini |
Preceded by | Ľubomír Jahnátek |
Succeeded by | Ján Mičovský |
Deputy Prime Minister | |
In office 22 March 2018 – 21 March 2020 | |
Prime Minister | Peter Pellegrini |
Personal details | |
Born | Poprad, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) | 28 November 1964
Political party | Slovak National Party |
Children | 1 |
Education | Slovak University of Agriculture |
Gabriela Matečná (born 28 November 1964 in Poprad) [1] is a Slovak agriculturalist and politician. Between 2016 and 2020, she served as the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development. Since 2018, she is a member of the Slovak National Party. [2]
Matečná graduated from the Slovak University of Agriculture. Since 2008, she worked at the Slovak Land Fund - the government agency responsible for managing government owned agricultural land. In 2012, she became the CEO of the Fund as a nominee of the Direction – Slovak Social Democracy party. [3] As a CEO, she faced accusations of helping people connected to the Prime Minister Robert Fico to buy lucrative state-owned land. [4]
Matečná became the Minister of Agriculture in 2016 as a nominee, but not a member of, the Slovak National Party. She became a member of the party in 2018. After the Slovak National Party failed to pass the representation threshold in the 2020 Slovak parliamentary election, she retired from politics. [5]