Martin Poliačik (born 27 June 1980, Považská Bystrica, Slovakia) is a Slovak expert on communication and critical thinking.

[3] He previously co-founded the political party Freedom and Solidarity, which he left in November 2017 due to disagreements with its chairman, Richard Sulík.

[5] In the party's first election to the National Assembly, he ran as the 11th candidate, receiving 4,893 preferential votes, which secured him a parliamentary seat.

In March 2017 Poliačik was elected as one of the twelve members of the party's Republican Council, supported by Richard Sulík, despite their differences.

In 2019, he attended the 60th anniversary of the Tibetan national uprising in Dharamshala, India,[13] with then deputy speaker of parliament, Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová.

In November 2017 Poliačik announced his departure from Freedom and Solidarity due to differences with chairman Richard Sulík, citing inadequate communication of the party's pro-European orientation and support for democracy[14] The same year in December, Poliačik joined Progressive Slovakia, resulting in his dismissal as chair of the Committee on Incompatibility of Functions.

[15] In March 2018 Poliačik became a member of the Committee on Education, Science, Youth, and Sport, and participated as a substitute in the Permanent Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

[20][21] After the Russian Federation's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Poliačik organised a visit of a Ukrainian parliamentary delegation to Slovakia in March 2022.

It promotes a right-wing policy of free markets and competition, creates adequate conditions for innovation, and makes it possible to mobilise financial capital from both private and public sources.

He highlighted the importance of free markets, competition, innovation, and the mobilisation of financial capital for education and entrepreneurial endeavours, while rejecting socialist redistribution of resources.