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 ultranationalist Slovak National Party since 2012.

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Biography

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]

During 2006–2010, he was an assistant in the National Council of Slovakia and a member of several parliamentary commissions. He became the first vice-president of the Slovak National Party in 2010.

In 2012, he 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]

In 2016, Danko 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 his friend Peter Gajdoš, the Minister of Defense. The promotion was viewed by some in the media, general and internet public as a sign of corrupt government. This is because a single promotion by eight ranks has never happened in the history of Slovak Army, not at all to a person who has only joined mandatory national service for the period of one year. On April 29, 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 University of Matej Bel 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] In November 2018 the university set up a commission to review his thesis. [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, the 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] Zuzana Čaputová was sworn in at 12.07, so there were 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 some other people (e. g. the protocolist Ladislav Špaček [15] ) said that there was no president. Other people[ who? ] thought that Andrej Danko and Peter Pellegrini, the prime minister, were carrying out presidential competences.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Andrej Danko". Aktuality.sk. Retrieved 14 March 2016.
  2. ↑ "Andrej Danko elected as new Slovak Parliament chairman". Xinhua. 24 March 2016. Archived from the original on April 11, 2016. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  3. ↑ "Danko bans burqas, although nobody wears them in Slovakia". 22 December 2016.
  4. ↑ "Politicians see proposed burqa ban in Slovakia as premature".
  5. ↑ "Danko: Na hodnosť kapitán som hrdý, zaslúžim si ju". Pravda. 19 January 2017. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  6. ↑ "Internet oslavuje novú hodnosť predsedu SNS vtipnými obrázkami: Kapitán Danko, pozor na ľadovec!". Cas. 19 January 2017. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  7. ↑ "Andreja Danka povýšil minister obrany za SNS na kapitána (+video)". Dennik N. 19 January 2017. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  8. ↑ "Denník N: Danko is a plagiarist". spectator.sme.sk. The Slovak Spectator. 2018-11-15. Retrieved 2018-12-15.
  9. ↑ "Dankova rigorózna práca nedáva univerzite spávať". Pravda. 13 November 2018. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
  10. ↑ Vyhlásenie účelovej komisie Akademického senátu Univerzity Mateja Bela na preskúmanie podozrení na plagiátorstvo rigoróznych prác UMB (in Slovak), Univerzita Mateja Bela, 2019-01-09
  11. ↑ Azet.sk (15 June 2019). "Slovenským zastupujúcim prezidentom bol na 7 minút Andrej Danko". aktuality.sk (in Slovak). Retrieved 2019-06-18.
  12. ↑ "Prezidentka Slovenskej republiky | Ústava". Prezidentka Slovenskej republiky (in Slovak). Retrieved 2019-06-18.[ permanent dead link ]
  13. ↑ "Danko reaguje na kritiku: Neboli sme bez prezidenta, treba si naštudovať Ústavu". slovensko.hnonline.sk (in Slovak). 16 June 2019. Retrieved 2019-06-18.
  14. ↑ Tódová, Monika (2019-06-15). ""Zvládli sme to." Čaputovej nepokazil slávnostný deň ani Andrej Danko". Denník N (in Slovak). Retrieved 2019-06-18.
  15. ↑ "Protokolista Ladislav Špaček v Markíze upozornil na to". Denník N (in Slovak). 2019-06-15. Retrieved 2019-06-18.
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