His anti-corruption campaigning has been marked by "publicity stunts to shine a light on alleged graft",[1] particularly focusing on parliamentary privileges and bribery.

The choices for Matovič's Cabinet were accepted by the then Slovak president Zuzana Čaputová and he was appointed prime minister on 21 March 2020.

[citation needed] Agence France-Presse described him as an "eccentric self-made millionaire and former media boss" who had become "a media-savvy but unpredictable politician".

[5] In 2010, Matovič founded the Ordinary People (Obyčajní ľudia) civic movement, which was generally centre-right and emphasized anti-corruption.

He sat in the SaS caucus until February the following year, when he supported the opposition Smer's proposed restrictions on Multiple citizenship.

[9] However, Robert Fico accused Matovič of impropriety in effecting a fictitious sale of the regionPRESS business for 122 million Slovak koruna to employee Pavel Vandák, who supposedly got the money from an internal account.

[12][13][14] Sociologist of the Bratislava Policy Institute, Michal Vašečka, stated that "Matovič has started to transform the anger of the society into a class war: city vs. countryside, educated vs. uneducated, common people vs. the elites."

[15] In July 2020, Matovič admitted to plagiarizing his masters' thesis after an investigation from Denník N found that entire pages and charts were lifted from the sources.

[17] In March 2021, MP and chair of the parliamentary European affairs committee Tomáš Valášek announced his quitting from the government coalition and the For the People party in reaction to the purchase and subsequent arrival of the first 200,000 doses of the Sputnik V vaccine which Matovič and Minister of Health Marek Krajčí welcomed at the Košice airport.