Andrei Danko

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Andrei Danko

Andrej Danko (born August 12, 1974 in Revúca , Czechoslovakia , now Slovakia ) is a Slovak lawyer and politician . Since 2012 he has been party leader of the Slovak National Party (SNS). After the election to the National Council in Slovakia in 2016 , Danko became President of the Slovak Parliament .

Life

From 1988 to 1992 he graduated from the Martin Kukučina grammar school in Revúca . In 1998 he completed his law studies with a doctorate, from 2003 to 2012 Danko worked as an independent lawyer.

As a sympathizer of the Slovak National Party (SNS) he was from 1997 nominee of the party to various central election commissions. From 2006 to 2010 he worked as an assistant in the National Council of the Slovak Republic for the SNS MPs, as well as legal consultant to the SNS and as a nominee for the party in the parliamentary commission. On September 25, 2010, Danko became vice chairman of the SNS under party leader Ján Slota . On October 6, 2012, he was elected the new chairman of the Slovak National Party with 153 of 156 delegate votes.

After the re-entry of his party in the 2016 parliamentary elections and a coalition agreement within the framework of the Robert Fico III government , Danko was elected President of the Slovak Parliament on March 23, 2016. According to a survey by the agency AKO (1000 respondents from May 4 to 10, 2016), Danko was the second most trustworthy Slovak politician after the parliamentary elections after President Andrej Kiska and ahead of Prime Minister Robert Fico . The Slovak political scientist Michal Horský judged the survey results to the effect that Danko had succeeded with his politics to break the label of the most corrupt parliamentary party in Slovak history after the fall of 1989 from his Slovak National Party. In a survey by the agency Focus (1003 respondents from June 14th to 20th) Danko was the most popular among all party leaders of the parties represented in the Slovak National Council with a value of 50.2%. Second and third place went to the Slovak-Hungarian politician Béla Bugár (43.3%) and Prime Minister Robert Fico (36.4%). However, after the "Captain" affair (see section controversies ), its popularity dropped from 49% in December 2016 to 34% in February 2017.

Political positions

Andrej Danko with EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in October 2016 during the Slovak EU Council Presidency.
Danko at a press conference in October 2016.

Danko said in November 2015 that his party was committed to ensuring that “strategic companies” come into state hands. Only a constitutional law could protect this state interest in the future. Danko also emphasized that neighboring countries would buy up shares in foreign companies, citing Poland and Hungary as examples . According to Danko, Poland has frozen all trade in state property. Against the background of the refugee crisis in Europe , Danko is calling for the EU to better protect the external border from migrants, since it is mainly young men who would run away from problems instead of solving them. Danko said in January 2016:

“They are against the EU administrative system and pose a security risk. It is not a concern that they are unarmed, it is a mass invasion. [...] Here are 750,000 young men who claim that they are being persecuted at home and do not think about how to free their mothers and wives. "

At the same time, Danko distanced himself from extremist positions and explained the direction of his party:

"I don't want the SNS to be a xenophobic, racist and nationalist party, but a proud patriotic party, even a republican party, which [...] will attract its voters without adopting extremist attitudes."

At the beginning of September 2016, Danko explained his attitude towards the rights of LGBTI people in front of representatives of the Central and Eastern European Bishops' Conferences:

“I am proud that I live in a state where believers and Christians live predominantly. [...] I can assure you that I will do everything politically to ensure that neither the rights of the LBGTI nor those of other values ​​are implemented in Slovakia. You will not find any support in our political program or our political line that violates fundamental Christian principles, and that is the coexistence of men and women. "

In September 2016, Dankos SNS submitted a bill to the Slovak National Council to increase the minimum number of signatures required to register a new religious community from the current 20,000 to 50,000. Danko admitted that the legislative initiative was also directed against the "threat of Islamization". At the end of January, the Slovak National Council adopted the draft law of the SNS, overriding a veto previously put in by the independent President Andrej Kiska. In the long term, this means that Islam, for example, cannot be recognized as an official religion.

Controversy

Andrej Danko's family is repeatedly accused of having enriched themselves at the Lesostav Revúca company during the waves of privatization in the 1990s under Prime Minister Vladimír Mečiar . While the Slovak National Property Fund estimated the value of the company at that time at 60 million Slovak crowns , the purchase price of the Dankos was only 10 million crowns. In January 2017 it became known that the Minister of Defense Peter Gajdoš, appointed by the SNS since 2016, promoted Danko to the military degree of “Captain in Reserve” in September 2016. This promotion was reversed on April 29, 2020 after the change of government following the 2020 National Council election by the new Defense Minister Jaroslav Naď ( OĽaNO ).

In July 2018, Danko was nominated "Homophobe of the Year" by the Slovak Human Rights Institute. The decisive factor here was a quote by Danko about non-heterosexually oriented people:

"If someone gets rid of their right to reproduce on the basis of their sexual orientation, they get rid of what nature and God gave them, because if someone chooses a homosexual relationship, then they have no right to raise children."

In January 2019, a commission of inquiry set up by Matej Bel University Banská Bystrica announced that 63 of the 72 pages of Danko's doctoral thesis largely matched five templates.

Private

Danko has advanced foreign language skills in German and Russian. He is interested in soccer , running , skiing and chess .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Novozvolení Poslanci zložili sľuby, šéfom parlamentu sa stal Danko. In: ta3.com, March 23, 2013, accessed at 1:42 pm. [Slovak]
  2. ↑ PRIESCUM: A. Kiska vedie v dôveryhodnosti pred A. Dankom a R. Ficom. In: dobrenoviny.sk, May 12, 2016, accessed June 3, 2016, 11:36 pm. [Slovak]
  3. ↑ HORSKÝ: A. Danko pomohol SNS zbaviť sa nálepky najkorupčnejšej strany. In: teraz.sk, May 17, 2016, accessed June 4, 2016, 11:43 am. [Slovak]
  4. ↑ Veronika Folentová: Prieskum: Andrej Danko je najsympatickejší predseda strany, predbehol aj Fica. In: dennikn.sk, July 8, 2016, accessed July 10, 2016, 12:27 pm.
  5. ↑ Miro Kern: Kapitán Danko sa prepadá, po strane padla aj jeho osobná popularita . In: dennikn.sk, February 27, 2017, accessed on March 1, 2017, 12:42 p.m.
  6. ↑ Šéf SNS vyzval Hudáka, aby odstúpil z postu ministra. In: dennik.hnonline.sk, November 20, 2015, accessed June 3, 2016, 10:56 pm. [Slovak]
  7. ↑ Migranti sú bezpečnostná hrozba: Treba zabrániť moslimskej menšine, aby sa tu usadila! In: topky.sk, January 27, 2016, accessed June 3, 2016, 11:14 pm. [Slovak]
  8. ↑ Migranti sú bezpečnostná hrozba: Treba zabrániť moslimskej menšine, aby sa tu usadila! In: topky.sk, January 27, 2016, accessed June 3, 2016, 11:14 pm. [Slovak]
  9. ↑ Danko: Urobím všetko preto, aby sa práva LGBTI nepresadzovali. In: pravda.sk, September 8, 2016, accessed on September 13, 2016, 8:11 pm.
  10. ↑ Začína sa to kebabom, vyhlásil Danko. Šéf SNS chystá bič na moslimov . In: Aktuell.sk, October 4, 2016, accessed October 15, 2016, 12:16 pm.
  11. ^ Slovakia tightened religious law. In: derstandard.at, January 31, 2017, accessed on February 5, 2017, 10:15 am.
  12. ↑ Monika Tódová: Bývalý riaditeľ Dankovcami sprivatizovaného Lesostavu: Danko ever zbabelec. In: dennikn.sk, February 29, 2016, accessed on February 5, 2017, 10:22 am.
  13. ↑ Vladimír Šnídl: Andreja Danka povýšil minister obrany za SNS na kapitána. In: dennikn.sk, January 18, 2017, accessed on February 10, 2017, 7:31 pm. [Slovak]
  14. ↑ Danko už never ever kapitán. Naď zrušil mimoriadne povýšenia politikov , In: sme.sk, April 29, 2020, accessed on May 2, 2020 [Slovak]
  15. ↑ [pravda.sk https://spravy.pravda.sk/domace/clanok/475718-homofobom-roka-je-danko-triumfoval-vdaka-krkolomnemu-vyroku/ Homofóbom roka je Danko, 'triumfoval' vďaka krkolomnému výroku. ] In: pravda.sk, July 4, 2018. [Slovak]
  16. ↑ orf.at: Slovak parliamentary president convicted of plagiarism . Article dated January 11, 2019, accessed January 12, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Danko, Andrej
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Revúca