Fico's second and third governments — social-democratic-nationalist with flat-tax reversal and later tripartite nationalist coalition. Economic school: Slovak social-democratic redistribution with national- champion orientation — flat tax abolished Jan 2013 (PIT 19% -> 19%/25% above threshold, CIT 19% -> 23% then 22% 2014 -> 21% 2017); restored bank levy (2012), health-insurance unitary-system attempt (blocked), bonus-year pension cap, minimum-wage ramp. Third term (2016-2018) added SNS nationalist and Most-Hid minority-Hungarian partners; tainted by Jan Kuciak and Martina Kusnirova murder 21 Feb 2018 — investigative journalist probing Italian 'Ndrangheta-Smer links and VAT-fraud cases. Mass protests ('For a Decent Slovakia') forced Fico's resignation 15 Mar 2018, replaced by Pellegrini. Left-right axis: centre-left economically, culturally-conservative-nationalist. Dated policies: flat-tax abolition 2013, bank levy 2012, Kuciak assassination Feb 2018. Popularity: high through most of tenure then collapsed. Coherence: moderate-to-high until 2018 crisis.
Policy-content fingerprint — how the framework codes this movement on its axes
Size of cash and near-cash transfer programmes (unemployment benefits, means-tested assistance, universal child benefits). Architecturally distinct from forced-saving schemes — see condition welfare_architecture.
increased · moderate
larger transfer footprint
Minimum-wage ramp, 13th pension, social transfers expanded.