Martin Fedor is a member of Slovak National Council and he served as Minister of Defence of Slovakia after the resignation [1] of Juraj Liška because of a Slovak Air Force An-24 crash in 2006.
Martin Fedor was born on March 4,1974,in PovažskáBystrica. He studied international relations at Comenius University in Bratislava from 1992 to 1997. After he received a master's degree in political sciences he continued with more educational activities and work for several privately held organizations. Martin Fedor is married.
Martin Fedor joined the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union in 2001 and he has been active in politics ever since. He was also a member of Slovak Democratic and Christian Union youth association - New Generation since 2001.
He left SDKÚ-DS in 2016 and joined Radoslav Procházka's #Network. After receiving only 5.6% in the 2016 Slovak parliamentary elections,and secret talks between Procházka and Robert Fico to join the coalition government led by SMER-SD,#Network started to fall apart,and after few months all the group's MPs had either become independent (going on to form the new party SPOLU) or joined another coalition party,Most-Híd. Fedor joined Most-Híd in 2016 and been a member since then.
Vladimír Mečiar is a Slovak former politician who served as the prime minister of Slovakia from June 1990 to May 1991,June 1992 to March 1994,and again from December 1994 to October 1998. He was the leader of the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS),a populist party in Slovakia.
MikulášDzurinda is a Slovak politician who was the prime minister of Slovakia from 30 October 1998 to 4 July 2006. Dzurinda is the founder and leader of the Slovak Democratic Coalition (SDK) and then the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union (SDKÚ–DS). From 2002 to 2006,his party formed a coalition government with the Christian Democratic Movement (KDH),the Alliance of the New Citizen (ANO),and the Party of the Hungarian Coalition (SMK–MKP).
The Slovak Democratic and Christian Union –Democratic Party is a liberal-conservative,Christian-democratic political party in Slovakia. The SDKÚ-DS was a member of the Centrist Democrat International and was a member of the European People's Party until 2018,when it was expelled due to inactivity.
Eduard Kukan was a Slovakian politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1998 to 2006. He was a candidate in the presidential election held on 3 April 2004,and although pre-election polls had suggested he would come first,he actually came in third behind the eventual President Ivan Gašparovičand former prime minister Vladimír Mečiar,thus preventing him from contesting the run-off. He was elected Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in 2009,a position he held until 2019.
Monika Beňová is a Slovak politician who has been a member of the European Parliament since 2004. She is a member of the centre-left Direction-Social Democracy party SMER-SD. SMER-SD is a member of the Party of European Socialists. She presently serves on the Committee on the Environment,Public Health and Food Safety. At the same time she serves as a Quaestor of the European Parliament and therefore she is a member of the European Parliament's Bureau. In present she has opposite views as her mother party - Smer,for example on European Union,NATO,LGBTQ rights in Slovakia,conflict in Ukraine and so on.
The Civic Conservative Party is a centre-right liberal conservative political party in Slovakia. It has one seat in the National Council,following the 2023 election. It has also representation at regional and local level.
The Slovak National Party is an ultranationalist political party in Slovakia. The party characterizes itself as a nationalist party based on both social and European Christian values.
Miroslav Lajčák is a Slovak politician and diplomat,former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic. In addition,Lajčák also served as President of the United Nations General Assembly for the 72nd session from 2017 until 2018.
Iveta Radičová is a Slovak sociologist and former politician who served as prime minister of Slovakia from 2010 to 2012. The first woman to hold the position,Radičováled a coalition government as a member of the SDKÚ-DS. As prime minister,she was responsible for managing the economy after the Great Recession,and she supported budget cuts to reduce the government deficit.
Parliamentary elections were held in Slovakia on 12 June 2010. The elections were contested by eighteen parties,six of which passed the 5% threshold for sitting in parliament. Despite the incumbent Smer of Prime Minister Robert Fico winning a plurality,the new government consisted of a coalition led by the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union –Democratic Party's Iveta Radičováand included KDH,SaS and Most-Hid. However,her government fell on 11 October 2011 following a vote of no confidence with a new election called for 10 March 2012.
Presidential elections were held in Slovakia on 15 March 2014,with a second round on 29 March 2014.
Radoslav Procházka is a Slovak lawyer,former politician and former leader of the political party Sieť. He was an unsuccessful candidate in 2014 Slovak presidential election,running as an independent. As the leader of the party Network,he helped to create the new government of Slovakia following the Parliamentary Election held on 5 March 2016 while joining parties Direction –Social Democracy,Slovak National Party,Most–Híd,while he had claimed before elections to never join party SMER in government and many of his voters voted him as an opposing force to Direction –Social Democracy.
The following lists events that happened during 2015 in Slovakia.
Parliamentary elections were held in Slovakia on 5 March 2016 to elect the 150 members of the National Council. The ruling left-wing populist Direction –Social Democracy (Smer) party remained the strongest party,but lost its majority. The Slovak Democratic and Christian Union –Democratic Party (SDKÚ–DS),which led the government between 2000–06 and 2010–12,was defeated heavily,failing to cross the electoral threshold and losing its representation in the National Council. The centre-right Christian Democratic Movement (KDH) also failed to cross the threshold for the first time since 1990,whilst the far-right nationalist Kotleba –People's Party Our Slovakia (ĽSNS) entered parliament for the first time.
The Slovak Conservative Party,formerly known as Network,was a centre-right political party in Slovakia. It was established by Radoslav Procházka,a former member of Christian Democratic Movement (KDH).
Parliamentary elections were held in Slovakia on 29 February 2020 to elect all 150 members of the National Council.
Eduard Heger is a Slovak politician,who served as the Prime Minister of Slovakia from 1 April 2021 to 15 May 2023. He previously served as the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance in the cabinet of Igor Matovič. Heger was a member of the presidium of the Ordinary People and Independent Personalities (OĽaNO) party which he left in March 2023 to take over the extra-parliamentary Blue Coalition party,subsequently rebranded as Democrats.
Peter Osuský is a Slovak politician,serving as the member of the National Council. In addition to being a MP,he is also a councilor in the Bratislava Old Town council,university professor and physician. Osuskýis active as a co-editor of the Encyclopaedia Beliana.
Miroslav Beblavý is a Slovak investor,startup founder,economist,author and former politician. He is currently CEO of CB ESPRI,an impact investment fund,CEO of Zhiva,a behavioral health startup,and adjunct professor at Sciences Po in Paris and Hertie School in Berlin. Between 2010 and 2020,he served three terms as an MP of the National Council of Slovakia. Between 2002 and 2006,he held the post of state secretary at the Ministry of Labor,Social Affairs and Family. He was also the chairman of the Together –Civic Democracy party in the 2018-2020 period,co-leading the unsuccessful election coalition with Progressive Slovakia in the 2020 Slovak parliamentary election. He also worked as Senior Research Fellow at Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels (2010-2019).
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