Ivan Gašparovič

Ivan Gašparovič (born in 1941) is a Slovak politician , current president of Slovakia since 2004. Former professor of criminal Law, it caused controversies in his country at the time of his election, because of the preeminent part which it played during the mandate of the former Prime Minister Vladimír Mečiar who had been worth in Slovakia to be put at the variation partially by the European Union and the the United States in the middle of the Années 1990.

Family

Married with Silvia, a ingénieure in construction, Mr. Gašparovič have two children. He speaks Russian, Croatian and a little German. He says that he is learning the English.

He was born in a family from teachers with Poltar the March 27th 1941. At the time of the Spring of Prague in 1968, it adhered to the Czechoslovakian Communist party which then tried under the direction of Alexander Dubček to liberalize the mode but it left there after the Soviet intervention in August the same year. He then taught the criminal law to the university of Bratislava.

Political career

The destiny of Ivan Gašparovič changed after the fall of the fine Communisme 1989 when the former dissident Václav Havel, become president, named it at the post of public prosecutor of the federal Czechoslovakia.

It adhered in 1992 to the party of the politician discussed Vladimír Mečiar, the Mouvement for a democratic Slovakia (HZDS), which obtained the partition by amicable agreement of Czechoslovakia at January 1st 1993. Ivan Gašparovič was the principal author of the independent Constitution of Slovakia.

President of the Slovak Parliament of 1992 and 1998, one period during which Vladimír Mečiar (1992 - March 1994 and November 1994 - 1998) was twice elected Prime Minister (initially of Slovakia within the Czechoslovakian Federation then of Slovakia independent).

This period was marked by opaque privatizations and political scandals. For these reasons, Slovakia was excluded in the middle of the Nineties from the first negotiations from entry in NATO and the European Union.

Before the legislative ones of 2002 (four years after the HZDS of Vladimír Mečiar gained the legislative ones of 1998 but was not able to form a coalition government) Ivan Gašparovič was scrambled with Vladimír Mečiar to create its own party, the Mouvement for a democracy (HZD).

At the time of the second turn of the presidential election by the vote for all the April 17th 2004, it largely beat its former mentor with 60% of the voices, by mobilizing part of the opponents with Vladimír Mečiar. The pro-European line, joined together around the Prime Minister Mikuláš Dzurinda, had however invited not to vote not to have to decide between two of its adversaries.

Ivan Gašparovič had caused the surprise with the first turn by exceeding of extreme accuracy the big favorite of the poll, the Foreign Minister Christian Democrat Eduard Kukan.

See too

List of the current leaders

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