Vladimír Mečiar
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| 1st and 3rd Prime Minister of Slovakia | |
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In office 13 December 1994 – 30 October 1998 |
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| President | Michal Kováč |
| Preceded by | Jozef Moravčík |
| Succeeded by | Mikuláš Dzurinda |
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In office 24 June 1992 – 16 March 1994 |
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| President | Michal Kováč |
| Preceded by | Ján Čarnogurský |
| Succeeded by | Jozef Moravčík |
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In office 27 June 1990 – 6 May 1991 |
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| Preceded by | Milan Čič |
| Succeeded by | Ján Čarnogurský |
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President of Slovakia Acting |
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In office 2 March 1998 – 30 October 1998 Serving with Ivan Gašparovič (Acting) |
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| Preceded by | Michal Kováč |
| Succeeded by |
Mikuláš Dzurinda (Acting) Jozef Migaš (Acting) |
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In office 1 January 1993 – 2 March 1993 |
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| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Michal Kováč |
| Minister of the Interior of Slovakia | |
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In office 11 January 1990 – 27 June 1990 |
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| Prime Minister | Milan Čič |
| Preceded by | Milan Čič |
| Succeeded by | Anton Andráš |
| Member of the National Council | |
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In office 15 October 2002 – 12 June 2010 |
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In office 16 March 1994 – 13 December 1994 |
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26 July 1942 Zvolen, Slovakia |
| Political party | People's Party-Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (1991–2014) |
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Communist Party (Before 1970) Independent (1970–1989) Public Against Violence (1989–1991) |
| Spouse(s) | Margita Mečiarová |
| Alma mater | Comenius University in Bratislava |
Vladimír Mečiar (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈʋlaɟimiːr ˈmetʃiar]; born 26 July 1942) is a Slovak politician who served three times as Prime Minister of Slovakia, from 1990 to 1991, from 1992 to 1994 and from 1994 to 1998. He was the leader of the People's Party - Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (ĽS-HZDS). Mečiar led Slovakia during the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1992–93 and was one of the leading presidential candidates in Slovakia in 1999 and 2004. He has been criticised by his opponents as well as by Western political organisations for having an style of administration and for his connections to organized crime and his years in government became infamously known as Mečiarizmus (Mečiarism - spin off from Communism, due to its autocracy).
He was born in Detva in 1942 as the eldest of four boys. His father was a tailor, and his mother a housewife. His wife Margita is a medical doctor and he has four children. Starting in the Communist Party of Slovakia, the only road to prominence in Communist Czechoslovakia, he became committee chairman in the town of Žiar nad Hronom, only to be dismissed in the year after the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, when he delivered a pro-reform speech to the national congress in 1969 and was thrown out. A year later he was also expelled from the Communist Party and then added to the Communist Party Central Committee's long list of enemies of the socialist regime. He put himself through the Faculty of Law of the Comenius University while working in a glass factory.
In late 1989, during the fast-paced anti-Communist Velvet Revolution, he joined the new political party, Public Against Violence (Verejnosť proti násiliu, VPN), which was the Slovak counterpart to the better-known Czech Civic Forum. On 11 January 1990, when the VPN was looking for professionals to participate in the government of Slovakia, Mečiar was appointed as Minister of the Interior and Environment of Slovakia on a recommendation of Alexander Dubček, who was impressed by Mečiar‘s thorough knowledge in all relevant fields.
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