Fico's Second Cabinet

Fico's Second Cabinet
8th Cabinet of Slovakia
4 April 2012 - 23 March 2016
Date formed	4 April 2012
Date dissolved	23 March 2016
People and organisations
Head of state	Ivan Gašparovič Andrej Kiska
Head of government	Robert Fico
No. of ministers	14
Ministers removed	6
Total no. of members	20
Member party	Direction - Social Democracy
Status in legislature	Absolute majority 83 / 150 (55%)
Opposition party	KDH OĽANO Most-Híd SDKÚ-DS Sloboda a Solidarita
History
Election	2012 Slovak parliamentary election
Incoming formation	2012
Outgoing formation	2016
Predecessor	Radičová's Cabinet
Successor	Fico's Third Cabinet

Robert Fico's Second Cabinet is the former government of Slovakia, headed by prime minister Robert Fico. Appointed on 4 April 2012, it consists of 14 members, 11 from the Direction - Social Democracy party (Slovak: Smer-SD) and three independents. It replaced Iveta Radicova's cabinet after gaining an absolute majority in the Slovak parliament following the 2012 Slovak parliamentary election.

This was the first time since the breakup of Czechoslovakia that any party had won an absolute majority, though Smer-SD fell seven seats short of a three-fifths majority to unilaterally amend the constitution.^[1]

Fico's Second Cabinet was replaced by Fico's Third Cabinet on 23 March 2016.