Martin Klus

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Martin Klus
Born	(1980-06-08)8 June 1980
Nationality	Slovak
Occupation	political scientist and politician

Martin Klus is a Slovak professional political scientist and graduated political theorist. He has obtained postgraduate diploma in Theory of Politics. Prior to entering Slovak politics he worked as a university lecturer and political analyst providing hundreds of political analyses to domestic media (radio and television of Slovakia, TA3, TV JOJ, Markíza, Radio Lumen, Hospodárske noviny, Pravda, Nový čas, aktualne.sk, actuality.sk, etc.) and foreign media (Česká televize, Lidové noviny, Magyar Rádió, Wiener Zeitung, TRT, BBC, etc.).

In the years 2013 and 2014, he was ranked among the most cited Slovak political scientists and sociologists.^[1]

Since 1999 he has been actively engaged in the non-profit sector with the aim to empower civic^[2] and student participation in public affairs, but also in educational^[3] and urban environment^[4] improving activities. He often takes part in political,^[5] professional^[6] and civic initiatives on the topic of electoral and referendum legislation.

Education[]

After he had finished his secondary school studies in 1998, he started his master's degree at the Faculty of Humanistics, University of Trnava and finished it in 2003 at the Faculty of Political Sciences and International Relations of Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica.^[7][8] In 2004 he gained the title PhD followed by postgraduate studies between 2004 and 2007, attaining a PhD in Theory of Politics at the same institution.

Professional life[]

Since 2003 Klus has been a university lecturer and researcher in the field of political science, public administration, European studies, lobbying and political marketing.^[9]

Between the years 2003 and 2008 he was professional fellow and lecturer at the Department of Public Policy and Public Administration and the Department of Economy at the Faculty of Political Sciences and International Relations of Matej Bel University. After habilitation in 2008, he became an assistant professor. In 2012 he obtained an MBA at the Sales Manager Academy in Vienna. He was lecturing, as a hosting assistant professor, in Sládkovičovo, Kolín and Brno in the Czech Republic, but also in Poland at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. In 2010 he was vice-rector for international and public relations and publications, and lecturer at the Department of Social Sciences at the University of St. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava. He held the same position in November and December 2014, but at the Matej Bel University, and Department of Economics and Regional Development, Faculty of Economy. Since 2015 he has been assistant professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Trnava.^[7]

Political activities[]

In the 2010 municipal elections, he achieved 1056 votes in Banská Bystrica's 7th precinct and became the first substitute representative, one place ahead of Marian Kotleba. On 15 November 2014 he achieved the highest vote in Rudlová-Sásova precinct, gaining 1734 votes and becoming the representative of the city of Banská Bystrica^[10] with the 7th strongest mandate overall.^[11]

He announced official cooperation with Freedom and Solidarity political party in December 2014, acting as an expert on foreign policy and political systems.^[12] Later in December of the same year he left the vice-rector seat of Matej Bel University, taking effect 1 January 2015.^[13]

In 2016 he ran for parliamentary election registered under the Freedom and Solidarity candidate list. The party gained 315,558 votes (12.1%) with 21,513 votes of preference for Martin Klus, which ensured him the seat of Member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic.^[14] Presently,^{[as of?]} he is Vice Chairman of the National Council European Affairs Committee and Member of the National Council Foreign Affairs Committee.^[15]

On 31 March 2017 Klus announced his campaign for the Governor of Banskobystrický region election taking place in November 2017.^[16] At the end of June 2017 he gained broad support of the opposition parties including Freedom and Solidarity, Ordinary People, New Majority, Christian Democratic Movement and Civic Conservative Party. On 3 October 2017, based on pre-election polls, he fulfilled his promise to not divide votes of candidates from democratic camp and stepped down from the campaign and in favor of Ján Lunter,^[17] who defeated Marian Kotleba, leader of the extremist Kotleba – People's Party Our Slovakia who at the time was the office holder by a large margin.

Martin Klus was elected as Chairman of the Sloboda a Solidarita (Liberty and Solidarity) caucus on 10 October 2019 after the exodus of few members. On October 16, 2019 he was also elected as the Deputy Speaker of the National Council of the Slovak Republic by a constitutional majority in the plenary to fill the post left empty by Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, elected to the European Parliament in June that year. Since 13 October 2019 he held the position of Vice Chairman of the NATO PA Subcommittee on NATO Partnership, as the first Slovak appointee in such a position.

Since the parliamentary elections in 2020, he has been State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic.

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