Ľuboš Blaha

In February 2022, the Slovak Academy of Sciences called Blaha to give up on his tenure immediately. However, Blaha refused to resign by saying the Slovak Academy of Sciences could burn him to death, imprison and persecute him, but he will not give up his freedom of speech.

Blaha was banned from Facebook for spreading misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic on June 14th 2022.

In 2020, MPs Blaha, Fico, and Kamenický submitted an amendment to the law on public holidays, adding one line that 30 September would be the Day of the Munich Betrayal.

In July 2020, Blaha was investigated by the Slovak Police under the law that prohibits denying or approving genocide or crimes against humanity. Blaha had posted on Facebook about "lies about murderous communists and innocent victims", claiming that the Communist regime had eliminated gangsters and helped ordinary people. The investigation and the charges were dropped in September 2020.

International Press Institute, along with the Slovak Academy of Sciences, condemned his abusive series of Facebook posts targeting two female Slovak journalists in 2019. Slovak Academy of Sciences and Academy of the Police Force condemned his posts on social media which go against the ethical code of the institutions. Security company ESET sued Blaha to protect its reputation. Court ordered Blaha to erase false posts about ESET. He called a special prosecutor a "young snot" (while falsely claiming the prosecutor was only 25 years old).

In 2018, along with five other MPs from Direction – Slovak Social Democracy, he co-signed the proposal concerning free lunches in public schools.

The first legislative initiative of MP Blaha was in 2017, when he and 7 other MPs proposed an amendment to part of the Labour code.

In the 2016 election campaign, he expressed disenchantment with the EU and stressed the four issues which he sees as the main failures of Europe: Greece, Russia, TTIP and the migration crisis. There were other main themes of his election campaign in addition to the criticism of the European Union – resistance to capitalism and exploitation; resistance to Western imperialism and propaganda; fight for peace. Blaha espouses socialism, anti-capitalism, alter-globalism and moderate pacifism. Thus, he is marked as a "Russian agent" by critics.

During the Greek crisis in 2015, he openly supported Syriza and defended the arguments of Alexis Tsipras and Yanis Varoufakis. After the breaking-up of Syriza and the agreement between Greece and its creditors, he further criticizes the EU for the imposition of a "neo-liberal diktat". He remains a supporter of Syriza.

Blaha has been a member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic since 2012. He used to support modern Western Marxism, radical democratic movements, and culturally liberal positions. He argues that in the era of neoliberal globalization, the Left must be more focused on socio-economic (redistribution of wealth, cooperative ownership, economic democracy) rather than cultural issues and that the social conservatism of working class in Slovakia must be accommodated.

From 2004 to 2006, Blaha worked for the Communist Party of Slovakia as the Head of its International Department. Despite calling him to give up on his tenure, Blaha works as a political scientist at the Institute of Political Sciences at the Slovak Academy of Sciences.

Ľuboš Blaha (born 7 December 1979) is a Slovak politician and political scientist. He is a member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic and a presidium member of the national-populist party Direction – Slovak Social Democracy.

He is one of the greatest defenders of the Russian Federation in Slovakia since the Russo-Ukrainian War broke out. He does not see himself as an apologist for Vladimir Putin's regime, but he perceives the crisis in Ukraine as a geopolitical clash between the West and Russia, and he rejects what he considers one-sided criticism of Russia and the growing Russophobia in Europe. He has openly criticized the Sanctions against Russia and he describes Russia as a friendly nation that liberated Slovakia from fascism in 1945.