Ivan Gašparovič
| Ivan Gašparovič | |
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| 3rd President of Slovakia | |
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In office 15 June 2004 – 15 June 2014 |
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| Prime Minister |
Mikuláš Dzurinda Robert Fico Iveta Radičová Robert Fico |
| Preceded by | Rudolf Schuster |
| Succeeded by | Andrej Kiska |
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In office 14 July 1998 – 30 October 1998 Acting Served with Vladimír Mečiar |
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| Prime Minister | Vladimír Mečiar |
| Preceded by | Michal Kováč |
| Succeeded by |
Mikuláš Dzurinda (Acting) Jozef Migaš (Acting) |
| Speaker of the National Council | |
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In office 1 January 1993 – 30 October 1998 |
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| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Jozef Migaš |
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In office 23 June 1992 – 29 October 1998 |
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| Preceded by | František Mikloško |
| Succeeded by | Jozef Migaš |
| Member of the National Council | |
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In office 23 June 1992 – 15 October 2002 |
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| Personal details | |
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27 March 1941 Poltár, Slovak Republic |
| Political party |
Communist Party (1968) People's Party – Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (1992-2002) Movement for Democracy (2002–present) |
| Spouse(s) | Silvia Beníková |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Comenius University |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
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Ivan Gašparovič (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈiʋaŋ ˈɡaʃparoʋitʃ]; born 27 March 1941) is a Slovak politician and lawyer who was President of Slovakia from 2004 to 2014. He was also the first Slovak president to be re-elected.
Ivan Gašparovič was born in Poltár, near Lučenec and Banská Bystrica in present-day south-central Slovakia, that time in the first Slovak Republic. His father, Vladimir Gašparović, emigrated to Czechoslovakia from Rijeka in Croatia at the end of World War I and was a teacher at a secondary school in Bratislava, and at one point its Headmaster. Gašparovič studied at the Law Faculty of the Comenius University in Bratislava, which is the main university in Slovakia, from 1959 to 1964. He worked in the District Prosecutor's Office of the district of Martin (1965–66), then became a Prosecutor at the Municipal Prosecutor's Office of Bratislava (1966–68). In 1968, he joined the Communist Party of Slovakia, supposedly to support Alexander Dubček's reforms, but he was expelled from the party after the Warsaw Pact invasion in Czechoslovakia in August 1968.
However, in spite of his expulsion, Gašparovič was able to continue his legal career and from 1968 to July 1990, he was a teacher at the Department of Criminal Law, Criminology and Criminological Practice at the Law Faculty of the Comenius University in Bratislava. In February 1990, he became the prorector (deputy vice-chancellor) of Comenius University.
After the Velvet Revolution and the subsequent fall of the Communist regime, Gašparovič was chosen by the newly elected democratic president Václav Havel to become the country's federal Prosecutor-General. After March 1992, he was briefly the Vice-President of the Legislative Council of Czechoslovakia, before the federal Czechoslovakia split into two independent states in January 1993. Gašparovič temporarily returned to the Comenius University Law Faculty. He was a member of the Scientific Council of the Comenius University and of the Scientific Council of the Law Faculty of the same university. In late 1992, he was one of the authors of the Constitution of Slovakia.
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