Zuzana Čaputová

Zuzana Čaputová (2019)

Zuzana Čaputová [ ˈzuzana ˈtʃaputɔʋaː ], née Zuzana Strapáková (born June 21, 1973 in Bratislava ), is a Slovak lawyer , environmental activist and social liberal politician . The former deputy chairwoman of the Movement Progresívne Slovensko (Progressive Slovakia) won the 2019 presidential election and has been the President of Slovakia since June 15, 2019 .

Career

Čaputová studied law at the Comenius University in Bratislava . She graduated in 1996. After completing her academic training, she worked for a number of years in the regional authority of the small town of Pezinok , first as a member of the legal department and later on the management committee of the city administration. In 2010 she founded a law firm.

Between 2001 and 2017, Čaputová worked with Via Iuris, a civil organization, as a lawyer (since 2010). In Pezinok, she was at the forefront of a public campaign against allowing another landfill to be allowed for more than ten years. This new landfill would worsen soil, air and water pollution in the city and its neighboring areas. The fight against the landfill culminated in 2013 when the Supreme Court of Slovakia ruled that the new landfill was illegal and violated environmental norms.

Against amnesties that Vladimír Mečiar had enforced, she stood up with the non-governmental organization Open Society Foundations . Following a petition against the amnesties, Parliament backed down and dropped it. In 2016, Čaputová received the Goldman Environmental Prize for its environmental protection activities .

Čaputová is the mother of two children. She was married to Ivan Čaputa until 2018. She lives with the musician, photographer and author Peter Konečný .

politics

Zuzana Čaputová joined the social-liberal party Progresívne Slovensko (Progressive Slovakia), founded in 2017, and was elected vice-chairman at the party's first convention in January 2018. After the announcement of the 2019 presidential election results, she resigned as the party's deputy chairwoman and announced that she would also suspend membership.

She advocates the Roma and Hungarians minorities in Slovakia and advocates adoption rights for same-sex couples. The fight against corruption is also part of their program . She was heavily involved in solving the murder of the Slovak journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kušnírová in 2018.

Political Preferences

Even if she mainly has representative tasks as president, there are numerous points that can be described as an electoral program. She takes a pro-European position and has spoken out in favor of the following preferences:

• Justice for All, including some improvements in the legal, judiciary and other areas. Ä. requires; this also includes the equal treatment of national minorities (Hungarians, Roma)
• consistent environmental protection
• she indicated that she would seriously strive for adoption rights for registered partnerships, that is, further equality for same-sex couples
• Liberalization of the abortion law

Presidential elections 2019

The Slovak presidential election in 2019 was a candidate for the party Čaputová Progresívne Slovensko . After the scientist Róbert Mistrík renounced his own candidacy at the end of February 2019 and recommended her election, she was considered the favorite. She won the first ballot on March 16, 2019 with 40.60 percent of the votes cast, the second largest share of the vote went to EU Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič , who was supported by the ruling party Smer - sociálna demokracia . The two candidates went into the runoff election on March 30, 2019. In the second ballot, Zuzana Čaputová received 58.40 percent of the vote (with a turnout of almost 42%), Maroš Šefčovič 41.59 percent. She took office on June 15, 2019.

Web links

Commons : Zuzana Čaputová  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website by Zuzana Čaputová (Slovak, Hungarian)

Individual evidence

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19. ↑ Zuzana Caputova: Slovak presidential election: First round goes to civil rights activist and lawyer Caputova. In: Welt Online. March 17, 2019, accessed March 17, 2019 . 
20. ^ Kilian Kirchgeßner: career changer on the way to the presidency. In: Zeit Online . 17th March 2019.
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