Juraj Šeliga
Juraj Šeliga (born 16 August 1990) is a Slovak polician, activist and lawyer. Since 2020 he has served as a Member of the National Council. From 2020 to 2021 he was the Deputy Speaker of the council.

Early life 
Šeliga was born in August 1990 in Dolný Kubín. He studied law at the University of Trnava, where he obtained a PhD degree. As a student he worked as an aide to the MP Pavel Abrhan.

Activism 
Šeliga worked with the NGO Via Juris aiming to improve the functioning of judiciary in Slovakia. In 2017 he founded the civic initiative Remember (Pamätaj in Slovak) to oppose the weakening of the National Memory Institute and promote the study of crimes of totalitarian regime. Following the March 2018 murder of the journalist Ján Kuciak, he was one of the main organizers of massive anti-government protests.

Political career 
In June 2019, Šeliga was one of the co-founder of the new party For the People led by the president Andrej Kiska. From its establishment until March 2023 he was a deputy chairman of the party.

In the 2020 Slovak parliamentary election, he was elected to the National Council. Right after election he was elected a Deputy Speaker of the National Council. In May 2021 he resigned the Deputy Speakership after pictures of him, his fellow MP Jana Žitňanská and the governor of the Bratislava region Juraj Droba spending time together in a restaurant that should have been closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic were published by the tabloid press. Šeliga faced particular criticism of his conduct because he had previously been a staunch defender of the anti-pandemic policies of the government.

In March 2023 Šeliga and Žitňanská left the For the People party. In April they joined the Democrats party of the Prime Minister Eduard Heger.

References 

1990 births
Living people
Members of the National Council (Slovakia) 2020-present
People from Dolný Kubín
For the People (Slovakia) politicians