[2] Podmanický has been a member of the Smer-SD party and the mayor of Stará Bystrica since 2002.
[3] Since 2006, Podmanický has been member of the National Council of Slovakia for Smer[4] and became an independent politician from May 2020.
[5] He joined fellow MPs Marián Kéry and Tomáš Taraba to establish a Conservative Platform.
Podmanický subsequently left Direction – Slovak Social Democracy, which he has been a member of since the beginning of his political career and became an independent politician.
He justified his departure by his unwillingness to accept the leftward shift of the party ideology.