Radoslav Procházka | |
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Personal details | |
Born |
Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) |
March 31, 1972
Political party |
Christian Democratic Movement (Before 2013) Independent (2013–2014) Network (2014–present) |
Spouse(s) | Katarína Procházková |
Children | 2 |
Alma mater |
Comenius University Yale University University of Trnava |
Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Website | Campaign website |
Radoslav Procházka (born 31 March 1972) is a Slovak lawyer, former politician and former leader of the political party Sieť. He was an unsuccessful candidate in Slovak presidential election, 2014, running as an independent. As the leader of the party Network, he helped to create the new government of Slovakia following the Parliamentary Election held on 5 March 2016 while joining parties Direction – Social Democracy, Slovak National Party, Most–Híd, while he had claimed before elections to never join party SMER in government and many of his voters voted him as an opposing force to Direction – Social Democracy.
Radoslav Procházka was born on March 31, 1972 in Bratislava. He attended elementary school between 1978 and 1986 at ZŠ Lumumbova school in Bratislava, after this he entered secondary upper high school (Slovak: Gymnazium) at Gymnázium Laca Novomeského, located on Tomášikova street in Bratislava. After graduating from high school in 1990 he was enrolled in the Comenius University in Bratislava, studying law. After graduating with a law degree in 1995, he worked as a research fellow with the Law faculty, before moving to the United States and completing his post-gradual study at Yale Law School with an LLM in 1998, and a JSD in 2001. He received a PhD degree from the University of Trnava in 2004 and became an associate professor there in 2005.