Ján Čarnogurský
| Ján Čarnogurský | |
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| 4th Minister of Justice of Slovakia | |
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In office October 30, 1998 – October 15, 2002 |
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| Preceded by | Jozef Liščák |
| Succeeded by | Daniel Lipšic |
| Prime Minister of Slovak Federal Republic | |
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In office May 6, 1991 – June 24, 1992 |
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| Preceded by | Vladimír Mečiar |
| Succeeded by | Vladimír Mečiar |
| Acting Interior Minister of Slovak Federal Republic | |
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In office November 2, 1990 – November 22, 1990 |
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| Deputy Prime minister of Slovak Federal Republic | |
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In office June 27, 1990 – April 23, 1991 |
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| Deputy Prime minister of Czechoslovakia | |
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In office December 10, 1989 – June 27, 1990 |
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| Personal details | |
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January 1, 1944 Bratislava, First Slovak Republic |
| Political party | Christian Democratic Movement |
Ján Čarnogurský (born 1 January 1944) is a Slovak former politician, a former Prime Minister of Slovakia (1991–1992) and the former chairman of the Christian Democratic Movement (1990–2000). Today he is chairman of Slovak-Russian association with headquarters in Bratislava.
He is married and has 4 children.
He studied Law at the Charles University in Prague (graduation in 1969) and at the Comenius University in Bratislava (Doctor's degree in 1971). From 1970 to 1981, first he was active as a junior attorney-at-law, then as an attorney-at-law in Bratislava, and was member of a section of the Center of Czech and Slovak attorneys-at-law. In 1981, he was deprived of his attorney-at-law licence by the Communist authorities, because he had defended a person in a political process. However, he continued to provide legal advice to opposition (Charta 77) and religious activists. Between 1982 and 1986 first he was active as a driver, then as a company lawyer. In 1987 he was fired and remained unemployed. He was an important figure in the secret church in Slovakia and, between 1987 and 1989, he published illegally the magazine Bratislavské listy (Bratislava Papers). He represented the Christian Democratic wing within the Anti-Communist opposition in Czechoslovakia.
Shortly before the Velvet Revolution, on August 14, 1989, he was imprisoned and released only after the collapse of the Communist regime through a presidential amnesty on November 25, 1989. From December 1989 to April 1990 he was the first vice-prime minister, since April to June 1990 the vice-prime minister of Czechoslovakia. He was a co-founder and, since February 1990, the chairman of the Christian Democratic Movement of Slovakia. Since the Christian Democratic Movement was Slovakia's second largest party after the Slovak parliamentary election, 1990, Čarnogurský became the vice-prime minister of Slovakia and in June 1990. After the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia split from the Public against Violence, i.e. from the party that had won the 1990 elections, Čarnogurský took over the post of the prime minister of Slovakia in April 1991.
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