Ivan Gašparovič and his wife Silvia

Ivan Gašparovič (born March 27, 1941), Slovak politician and law professor, became President of Slovakia on June 15, 2004. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... March 27 is the 86th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (87th in Leap years). ... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... This is a list of the Presidents of Slovakia. ... June 15 is the 166th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (167th in leap years), with 199 days remaining. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Gašparovič was born in Poltár, near Lučenec and Banská Bystrica in south-central Slovakia. His father, Vladimir Gašparović, migrated to Slovakia from Rijeka, Croatia at the end of World War I. Vladimir was a teacher at a gymnasium (secondary school) in Bratislava, and at one point its headmaster. Lučenec [lu-che-nyetz] (Hungarian: Losonc, German: Lizenz) is a town in the Banska Bystrica region of south-central Slovakia. ... Bansk Bystrica (Hungarian: Beszterceb nya, German: Neusohl) is a town in central Slovakia at the Hron river and at the Lower Tatra Mountains. ... Rijeka (Fiume in Italian and Hungarian; Rijeka and Fiume both mean river) is the principal seaport of Croatia, located on the Kvarner Bay, an inlet of the Adriatic Sea. ... Missing image Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... A gymnasium is a type of school of secondary education in parts of Europe. ... Bratislava - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ...

Gašparovič studied at the Law Faculty of the Comenius University in Bratislava, which is the central university in Slovakia, from 1959 to 1964. He worked in the District Prosecutor's Office of the district of Martin (1965-66), then became a Prosecutor at the Municipal Prosecutor's Office of Bratislava (1966-68). In 1968 he joined the Communist Party of Slovakia to support Alexander Dubček's reforms, but he was deprived of his party membership after the Warsaw Pact invasion in Czechoslovakia in August 1968 (see History of Czechoslovakia). The Comenius University (Slovak: Univerzita Komenského), with most faculties located in Bratislava, is the largest university in Slovakia. ... 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Martin (Hungarian: Turócszentmárton, German: Sankt Martin in der Turz) is a town in northern Slovakia. ... 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... In countries adopting the common law adversarial system or the civil law inquisitorial system, the prosecutor is the chief legal representative of the prosecution. ... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Old party In the past, the Communist Party of Slovakia (Slovak: Komunistická strana Slovenska -- KSS) was a communist party in Slovakia. ... . Alexander Dubček Alexander Dubček (November 27, 1921 – November 7, 1992) was a Slovak politician and briefly leader of Czechoslovakia (1968-1969). ... Map of Warsaw Pact member countries. ... 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Historical settings to 1918 Main Article: Origins of Czechoslovakia The creation of Czechoslovakia in 1918 was the culmination of the long struggle of the Czechs against their Austrian rulers and of the Slovaks against Hungarisation and their Hungarian rulers. ...

From 1968 to July 1990 Gašparovič was a teacher at the Department of Criminal Law, Criminology and Criminological Practice at the Law Faculty of the Comenius University in Bratislava. In February 1990 he became prorector (vice-chancellor) of Comenius University. 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

After the fall of the Communist regime through the Velvet Revolution he was chosen by Václav Havel to become prosecutor-general of Czechoslovakia based in Prague, from July 1990 to March 1992, which was a period of political tensions of Czechoslovakia. After March 1992, he was briefly Vice-President of the Legislative Council of Czechoslovakia, before Czechoslovakia ceased to exist in January 1993. He was also temporarily again a teacher at the Comenius University Law Faculty. He was a member of the Scientific Council of the Comenius University and of the Scientific Council of the Law Faculty of that university. In late 1992, he was one of the authors of the Constitution of Slovakia. The Velvet Revolution (Czech: sametová revoluce, Slovak: nežná revolúcia) (November 16 - December 29 1989) refers to a bloodless revolution in Czechoslovakia that saw the overthrow of the communist government there. ... Václav Havel [VAHTS-lav HA-vel] (born October 5, 1936) is a Czech writer and dramatist. ... Prague (Praha in Czech) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003) Events Media:January January 1 - Czechoslovakia divides. ... 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

From 1992 to July 12 2002 Gašparovič was a member of the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (MDS), the party led by the controversial Vladimír Mečiar. From June 1992 to September 2002, he was a member of the Slovak parliament (the National Council of the Slovak Republic), first within Czechoslovakia then in independent Slovakia, and until October 1998 he was Speaker of the Parliament. 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Peoples Party - Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (Slovak: Ľudová strana - Hnutie za demokratické Slovensko) is a political party in Slovakia. ... Vladimír Mečiar (born July 26, 1942) is the leader of the Peoples Party - Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (ĽS-HZDS) and a former Prime Minister of Slovakia. ... 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The National Council of the Slovak Republic (in Slovak: Národná rada Slovenskej republiky, often just: Národná rada) (NR SR) has been the name of the parliament of Slovakia since 1993 (more precisely since 1 October 1992). ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...

From October 1998 to 15 July 2002, when his MDS was an opposition party, Gašparovič was a member of the parliamentary Committee for the Supervision of the SIS (the Slovak equivalent of CIA). He was also a member of the delegation of the Slovak parliament in the Interparliamentary Union. 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sis (also known as Sision or Sisk?ia, later Flaviopolis or Flavias), is city of the Adana Province in Turkey. ... CIA, see CIA (disambiguation). ...

In July 2002, Gašparovič left the MDS, together with some other members. This happened a short time before the September parliamentary elections. The reason were internal disputes within the party, or as he puts it, a "protest against the undemocratic way the party is led by Vladimír Mečiar." On July 12, he founded the Movement for Democracy, a new opposition party, and became its leader. 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Movimento para a Democracia (Movement for Democracy) is a more or less liberal party in Cape Verde. ...

In the September 2002 elections his party polled 3.3 percent, not enough to win seats in the parliament. After the elections, Gašparovič returned to the Law Faculty of the Comenius University and wrote several university textbooks as well as working papers and studies on criminal law. 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In April 2004 Gašparovič ran for President against Mečiar, who was attempting to make a comeback after losing the 2002 legislative elections. Although Mečiar won more votes than Gašparovič in the first round, he did not win a majority. In the second round, Gašparovič polled nearly 60 percent of the vote after receiving the support of the eliminated candidates (see Slovakia presidential election, 2004). 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Presidential elections were held in Slovakia on April 3 (first round) and April 17 (second round) 2004. ...

Private life

In 1964, Gašparovič married Silvia Beníková, with whom he has two children. In his private life, he is a sports fan, mainly of ice hockey, which is the national sport of Slovakia. He was one of the leaders of the hockey club Slovan ChZJD (later called HC Slovan Bratislava). He was vice-president of the International Commission of the Czechoslovak Ice Hockey Union and vice-president of the hockey team of the sports unit Slovan Bratislava. 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

See also

• List of political parties in Slovakia
• List of Presidents of Slovakia
• List of leaders of Slovak parliaments
• Slovakia presidential election, 2004
• Silvia Gasparovicova

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External link

• campaign website (http://www.gasparovic.sk/cv.html) (in Slovak)
• Official website (http://www.prezident.sk/?introduction)