Daniel Lipšic
| Daniel Lipšic | |
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| Member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic | |
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Assumed office 4 April 2012 |
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| Constituency | Slovak Republic at large |
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In office 7 February 2006 – 8 July 2010 |
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| 10th Minister of Interior of Slovakia | |
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In office 8 July 2010 – 4 April 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Robert Kaliňák |
| Succeeded by | Robert Kaliňák |
| 5th Minister of Justice of Slovakia | |
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In office 15 October 2002 – 7 February 2006 |
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| Preceded by | Ján Čarnogurský |
| Succeeded by | Lucia Žitňanská |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
8 July 1973 Bratislava, Czechoslovakia |
| Political party |
Christian Democratic Movement (1998-2012) Nová väčšina – Dohoda (2012-) |
| Spouse(s) | Beáta Oravcová |
| Children | Alexander Peter |
| Alma mater |
Comenius University in Bratislava University of Minnesota Georgetown University Harvard Law School |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
| Website | www |
Daniel Lipšic (born 8 July 1973) is a Slovak politician and Jurist. He is a former Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Justice and former Minister of Interior. Until 28 May 2012 he was a member of the Christian Democratic Movement (KDH), in which he served as Vice-President and a Member of Parliament. Through his legal and political career, he is noted for his hard-line stance regarding officials from the former communist Czechoslovak regime, as well as crimes committed during this period. A public anti-corruption activist, he as outspoken against perceived corruption in the political or financial sphere.
In May 2012, in the aftermath of the electoral defeat of the Radičová cabinet, Lipšic together with Jana Žitňanský and Gabor Grendel, left the KDH and formed a new political party called NOVA (Slovak: Nová väčšina – Dohoda). He currently serves as its president. Daniel Lipšic has been consistently been ranked as the most trusted politicians in Slovakia.
Daniel Lipšic was born on 8 July 1973 in Bratislava into a family of physicians and doctors. Both his parents, along with his twin brother Erik and all of his cousins are medical doctors, and Lipšic grew up aspiring to be a doctor, saying:"I always thought I would be a doctor too, since during communism a career in law was restricted. But after the Velvet revolution things changed."
He attended secondary school (Slovak: Gymnazium) at the Grösslingová 18 Upper Secondary School. He enrolled at the Law Faculty at the Comenius University in Bratislava in 1991, graduating in 1996.
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