Pavol Hrušovský (born 9 June 1952) is a Slovak lawyer and retired politician who served as Speaker of the National Council of Slovakia from 2002 to 2006 and briefly again from 2011 to 2012. He also held the position of Deputy Speaker in two nonconsecutive terms (1998–2002 and 2010–2011) and was a member of the National Council for eight consecutive terms from 1992 to 2016. Hrušovský also ran for President of Slovakia in 2014 election, finishing sixth with 3.3% of the vote in the first round.
A lawyer by training and profession, Hrušovský began his political career as a member of the Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia from 1990 to 1992. Since the foundation of the Christian Democratic Movement in 1990, he has been a member of the party, serving as its chairman from 2000 to 2009. He was also a member of the Slovak Democratic Coalition, an electoral alliance formed for the 1998 Slovak parliamentary election.
Professional career
In 1978 he earned his degree at the Law Faculty of Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia.
After the conclusion of his study he worked in various economic organizations as a lawyer. In 1989 he became the head of the Legal Department of the "Jednota SD" cooperative in Nitra. In 1992 he became the head of the District Council in Nitra.
In 1989 he was co-opted for a deputy of the Federal Assembly (federal parliament) of Czechoslovakia. In the 1990 election, he was elected as a deputy of the Assembly, in which he worked in the Constitutional, Foreign Relations and Mandate and Immunity Committees.
Since the election in 1992 he has been a Member of the Slovak parliament. During the first election term of the National Council of the Slovak Republic (Slovak parliament) he was a member of the Constitutional and Mandate and Immunity Committees. In the second term he was a Deputy Speaker of the National Council. In the first round of the election, he ultimately received 63,298 votes (3.33% of the votes cast) and finished in 6th place out of 14 candidates. Following his unsuccessful presidential bid, Hrušovský resigned from the position of chairman of the Christian Democratic Movement parliamentary group as well as from the Christian Democratic Movement presidency.