Štefan Harabin
Štefan Harabin (born May 4, 1957 in Ľubica ) is a Slovak politician and judge.
Harabin completed a law degree at the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice . From 1980 he worked as a judge. Until the Velvet Revolution he was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia . In 1991 he was elected judge at the Supreme Court of Slovakia. From 1998 to 2003 Harabin was President of the Supreme Court, from 2001 also President of the Slovak Judicial Council.
From 2006 to 2009 he was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice in the Robert Fico I government at the suggestion of the ĽS-HZDS . From 2009 to 2014 he was again President of the Supreme Court.
As a right-wing candidate, Harabin ran for the 2019 presidential election . He remained independent, but was supported by the small extra-parliamentary parties KDŽP and Národná koalícia . In his election manifesto he advocated the “protection of traditional Slovak culture based on Christianity and the family consisting of a man-father and a woman-mother” and against “gender ideology”. He accused Muslim immigrants in Germany and France of killing and raping European women. He also turned against NATO , EU institutions and homosexuals. According to the security NGO Globsec , Harabin was the candidate who received the most support from “ Kremlin-related disinformation channels” on Facebook . Peter Bardy, editor-in-chief of Aktuellity.sk called him a candidate of the " conspiratorial web " and "chief judge who has turned into a pro-Russian troll ". In the first round of the presidential election, he came third with 307,823 votes (14.34%).
In October 2019 he founded the Vlasť (Heimat) party, which failed to enter parliament in the 2020 National Council election with 2.9% of the vote.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Who is who in the Slovak government. In: Prager Zeitung , July 26, 2006.
- ↑ Europe at a glance: Slovakia (last accessed on November 18, 2010)
- ↑ Harabin: Ambassador may be messing with Slovakia's internal affairs , SME, December 24, 2010.
- ↑ Za Slovensko, tradície a právny štát. Extra Plus, January 28, 2019.
- ^ Marc Santora: In Slovakia, Unlikely Presidential Candidate Signals a Backlash Against Populism. In: The New York Times , March 15, 2019.
- ↑ Miroslava Sawiris: Slovak Presidential Election Followed Through Facebook Disinformation Channels. Globsec, March 13, 2019.
- ^ Peter Lange: Presidential election in Slovakia - Liberal, ecological, pro-European. Tagesschau, March 16, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Harabin, Štefan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Slovak politician and lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 4th 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ľubica |