Marian Kotleba
| Marian Kotleba | |
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| Governor of Banská Bystrica Region | |
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Assumed office 24 November 2013 |
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| Prime Minister | Robert Fico |
| Preceded by | Vladimír Maňka |
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7 April 1977 Banská Bystrica, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) |
| Political party |
Kotleba – People's Party Our Slovakia (Kotleba – Ľudová strana Naše Slovensko) |
| Spouse(s) | Frederika Pospíšilová |
| Alma mater | Matej Bel University |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Marian Kotleba (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈmariaŋ ˈkotleba]; born 7 April 1977) is a Slovak politician and leader of the far-right Kotleba – People's Party Our Slovakia political party. (Slovak: Kotleba – Ľudová strana Naše Slovensko). He has since 24 November 2013 served as the Governor of Banská Bystrica Region.
Born in Banska Bystrica in what was then Czechoslovakia, Kotleba attended the local Jozef Murgas High School before enrolling at the Sports Grammar School (Slovak: Športové gymnázium Banská Bystrica) specialising in sports. After finishing the Grammar School he enrolled at the Matej Bel University receiving a Master's Degree in Pedagogics, later he once again enrolled at the Economics faculty at the same university and graduated with a master's degree in Economics.
Marian Kotleba holds views considered extremist, although he was never prosecuted for extremism (according to §140a of the Slovak criminal law). He is supportive of Jozef Tiso and the First Slovak Republic, and he is openly against Roma people,Slovak National Uprising,NATO, the United States and the European Union. According to Hospodárske noviny, his position on the Holocaust is unclear. The BBC and The Economist have described him as a neo-Nazi.
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