Slota became involved in politics after 1989 when the Communist Party fell from power in Czechoslovakia in the Velvet Revolution.

As a result of this split, none of the nationalist parties received the required 5% minimum of votes in the 2002 election.

"[2] After this statement, a map was published on the official SNS webpage showing Hungary as a part of Slovakia.

[14][15][16] He also said about Hungarians that "Even in 1248 a Frankish bishop was amazed after visiting the Carpathian Basin that God could have given such a beautiful country to such ugly people.

[10][18] Slota called the fascist leader Jozef Tiso "one of the greatest sons of the Slovak nation"[19][10] and, on 17 February 2000, 40 of the 41 city council members in Žilina, where Slota was mayor, voted to dedicate a plaque honoring Tiso.

[19] After World War II, Tiso was sentenced to death for his role in the murder of tens of thousands of Slovak Jews during the Holocaust.

[23] In 2006, some of Slota's controversial comments were reportedly circulated to Members of the European Parliament in a mass e-mail and were published, and criticized, by international media.

[10][12] In 1982 Slota worked in the Nováky Power Plant, where during the demolition of a wooden cooling tower he gave the order to burn it down.

[35] In his ATR he also supposedly confessed that he has a luxury villa[35] on the Croatian riviera[35] as well as a Porsche Cayenne Turbo S[37] "lent to him by one of his friends for his personal use".