Andrej Danko

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Andrej Danko
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Danko in 2018
Speaker of the National Council
In office
23 March 2016 –20 March 2020
Preceded by Peter Pellegrini
Succeeded by Boris Kollár
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Alma mater Comenius University (JUDr.)

Andrej Danko (born 12 August 1974) is a Slovak politician who was the Speaker of the National Council of the Slovak Republic from 2016 to 2020 and Chairman of the nationalist Slovak National Party since 2012.

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Early life and career

Born in Revúca, Danko studied at the Faculty of Law at Comenius University in Bratislava. [1] After compulsory military service, he founded several commercial companies and worked as an independent lawyer. [1]

Between 2006 and 2010, Danko was an assistant in the National Council of Slovakia and a member of several parliamentary commissions. He became first vice-president of the Slovak National Party in 2010. In 2012, Danko became the chairman of the party after getting support from many of the party's members, succeeding Ján Slota. [1]

On 23 March 2016, Danko was elected Speaker of the National Council. [2] He later called for the burqa to be banned in Slovakia. [3] [4]

Controversies

Promotion to the rank of Captain in Reserve

In September 2016, while in his position as the Speaker of the Parliament, Danko was promoted by eight ranks (from OR-4 to O-2), to Captain in Reserve of the Slovak Army, by Minister of Defence Peter Gajdoš  [ sk ]. The promotion was viewed by as a sign of corrupt government as a promotion by eight ranks has never happened in the history of Slovak Army, not at all to someone who has only joined mandatory national service for the period of one year. On 29 April 2020, Minister of Defence Jaroslav Naď canceled his rank. [5] [6] [7]

Plagiarism allegations

In 2018, Danko was accused of plagiarism of his doctoral thesis at Matej Bel University in 2000. When media showed interest in his thesis, he asked the university to ban public access to it. Following public pressure, Danko removed the ban after one month and the university library allowed the public to see the thesis, but not to take pictures of it. [8] The university set up a commission to review his thesis later that November. [9] According to the conclusion published by the commission in January 2019, the rigorous procedure met valid regulations, but the thesis contains parts that only slightly differ from original sources, most of the thesis is the same to a large extent and it preserves also the structure of sources without proper citation or paraphrasing. [10]

2019 Presidential Inauguration

In 2019, Danko presided over the ceremonial assembly of the National Council of the Slovak Republic on the occasion of presidential inauguration of Zuzana Čaputová in the Slovak Philharmonic, and delivered an unscheduled speech to address the participants. This caused a breach of a protocol which states that duties of the outgoing president cease at 12.00 GMT+1 and the elect takes office. [11] Slovak laws state that in an event of vacant presidential seat, some competences of the president are passed to the Speaker of the National Council and to the Government of the Slovak republic. [12] Once Čaputová was sworn in, some polemics concerning who was the president for the seven-minute term. Some people (including the Office of the National Council [13] and Peter Kubina, law consultant of Zuzana Čaputová [14] ) said that the president was still Andrej Kiska, but Ladislav Špaček said that there was no president. [15]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Andrej Danko". Aktuality.sk (in Slovak). Retrieved 14 March 2016.
  2. ↑ "Andrej Danko elected as new Slovak Parliament chairman". Xinhua News Agency. 24 March 2016. Archived from the original on 11 April 2016. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  3. ↑ "Danko bans burqas, although nobody wears them in Slovakia". The Slovak Spectator . 22 December 2016.
  4. ↑ "Politicians see proposed burqa ban in Slovakia as premature". Radio and Television of Slovakia . 22 December 2016.
  5. ↑ "Danko: Na hodnosť kapitán som hrdý, zaslúžim si ju". Pravda (in Slovak). 19 January 2017. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  6. ↑ "Internet oslavuje novú hodnosť predsedu SNS vtipnými obrázkami: Kapitán Danko, pozor na ľadovec!". Nový čas (in Slovak). Ringier Slovakia. 19 January 2017. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  7. ↑ Snidl, Vladimír (19 January 2017). "Andreja Danka povýšil minister obrany za SNS na kapitána (Video)". Denník N (in Slovak). N Press. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  8. ↑ "Denník N: Danko is a plagiarist". The Slovak Spectator. Petit Press. 16 November 2018.
  9. ↑ Štefúnová, Ivana (13 November 2018). "Dankova rigorózna práca nedáva univerzite spávať". Pravda (in Slovak). Retrieved 30 November 2018.
  10. ↑ Vyhlásenie účelovej komisie Akademického senátu Univerzity Mateja Bela na preskúmanie podozrení na plagiátorstvo rigoróznych prác UMB (in Slovak), Matej Bel University, 9 January 2019
  11. ↑ "Slovenským zastupujúcim prezidentom bol na 7 minút Andrej Danko". Aktuality.sk (in Slovak). 15 June 2019. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
  12. ↑ "Prezidentka Slovenskej republiky | Ústava". President of Slovakia (in Slovak). Retrieved 18 June 2019.[ permanent dead link ]
  13. ↑ "Danko reaguje na kritiku: Neboli sme bez prezidenta, treba si naštudovať Ústavu". Hospodárske noviny (in Slovak). 16 June 2019. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
  14. ↑ Tódová, Monika (15 June 2019). ""Zvládli sme to." Čaputovej nepokazil slávnostný deň ani Andrej Danko". Denník N (in Slovak). N Press. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
  15. ↑ "Protokolista Ladislav Špaček v Markíze upozornil na to". Denník N (in Slovak). N Press. 15 June 2019. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
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