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Ivan Gašparovič was born in Poltár, near Lučenec and Banská Bystrica in present-day south-central Slovakia, which was at that time the first Slovak Republic. [1] His father, Vladimir Gašparović, emigrated to Czechoslovakia from Rijeka in modern-day Croatia at the end of World War I and was a teacher at a secondary school in Bratislava ...
1998 Slovak presidential election Acting Presidents: Vladimír Mečiar and Ivan Gašparovič (1998–1999), later Mikuláš Dzurinda and Jozef Migaš (1999) 2: Rudolf Schuster (born 1934) 15 June 1999 15 June 2004 5 years: SOP: 1999: 3: Ivan Gašparovič (born 1941) 15 June 2004 15 June 2014 10 years: HZD: 2004: None: 2009: 4: Andrej Kiska ...
Raši was appointed as Minister of Health on 3 June 2008, by president Ivan Gasparovic. This happened the same day as his predecessor Ivan Valentovič resigned. Valentovič had long been under severe pressure to resign over his handling of the controversial health insurance reform as well as the general state of the Slovak health system.
US President George W. Bush and Slovak President Ivan Gasparovic meet at the White House in October 2008. The fall of the socialist regime in Czechoslovakia in 1989 and the subsequent split of the two republics on January 1, 1993, allowed for renewed cooperation between the United States and Slovakia. The election of a pro-Western, reformist ...
[96] [97] Ivan Gašparovič became the third president of Slovakia in 2004 and in 2009 became the first and the only Slovak re-elected president. [ 98 ] In 2006, Robert Fico became Prime Minister, during his first government, Slovakia joined the Schengen area on 21 December 2007, allowing visa free travel and on 1 January 2009 adopted the Euro ...
Presidential elections were held in Slovakia in March and April 2009, the country's third direct presidential elections. After no candidate received a majority of the vote in the first round on 21 March, the second round on 4 April saw Ivan Gašparovič become the first Slovak president to be re-elected, defeating opposition candidate Iveta Radičová by 56% to 44%.
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