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In the 2019 Slovak presidential election, Švec ran as an independent candidate for the President of Slovakia.[2] On 28 January 2019, he submitted more than 18,000 signatures confirming his candidacy for the presidency.[3] During the first round in March 2019, Švec received 6,567 votes and did not advance to the second round.[4]
After the 2019 presidential election, Švec founded his political party, the Slovak Revival Movement (SHO), and became its chairman. He ran as the leader of SHO candidates in the 2020 Slovak parliamentary election, but the party did not win any seat.[5]
Švec was about to ran his candidacy once again in the 2024 Slovak presidential election, this time as a member of the Slovak Revival Movement. However, he was ruled ineligible due to an insufficient number of valid signatures.[6]
Švec and the Slovak Revival Movement have repeatedly glorified the president of World War II era Slovak Republic and convinced war criminal Jozef Tiso.[7][8]
In an interview with JOJ, Švec declared that Slovakia should withdraw from the European Union and NATO and band the Intersex and LGBT symbols.[9] He further declared that Slovakia should curb media freedom "so that our youth does not grow up under the influence of decadent culture and tabloids."[10]
