Iveta Radičová

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Iveta Radičová (2010)

Iveta Radičová (born Karafiátová ; born December 7, 1956 in Bratislava ) is a Slovak sociologist and politician. From 2010 to 2012 she was the first woman Prime Minister of Slovakia . Radicova was a member of the SDKÚ-DS party . Since 2018 she has been the European Transport Coordinator for the Mediterranean Corridor.

Life

Radičová studied sociology at the Comenius University in Bratislava from 1975 to 1979 and later worked there and at the Slovak Academy of Sciences . In 1990 she completed post-doctoral studies at Oxford University . Until 2005 she held visiting professorships at universities in Great Britain, Sweden, Finland, Austria and the USA and was also an expert for the European Commission in the field of social policy. Since 2005 she has been a sociology professor in Bratislava.

Radičová lives in the municipality of Nová Dedinka ( Okres Senec ), has a daughter and is a widow - her husband, the humorist Stano Radič , died in 2005. She speaks fluent English and Russian and also speaks German and Polish.

Political career

She began her political career in 1990–1992 as a member of the Verejnosť proti násiliu (Public Against Violence, VPN) movement and was Minister for Labor, Social Affairs and Family in Mikuláš Dzurinda's second government from 2005–2006 . After the early parliamentary elections in 2006 , she became a member of the Slovak parliament for the first time for the opposition party Slovenská Demokratická a kresťanská únia - Demokratická strana (SDKÚ-DS).

In 2009 Radičová stood as a candidate for the opposition parties SDKÚ-DS, SMK-MKP and KDH as well as the extra-parliamentary OKS in the presidential elections on March 21, 2009 . In the first ballot she came in second place with 38.05% of the vote behind the incumbent President Ivan Gašparovič . In the runoff election against Gašparovič on April 4, 2009, she lost with 44.47% of the vote. Shortly thereafter, on April 23, 2009, she gave up her seat in parliament after illegally voting in place of another MP.

Iveta Radičová ran in the parliamentary elections in Slovakia in 2010 as the top candidate of the SDKÚ-DS. Your party was with 15.42% by far behind the Social Democrats (34.79%) only the second strongest force. Since the social democratic incumbent Robert Fico was unable to form a government due to the structural majority of the parties SDKÚ-DS, SaS , KDH and Most-Híd in the Slovak National Council (together 79 out of 150 seats) due to the structural majority of the parties, which are more center-right , Radičová was commissioned by President Ivan Gašparovič on June 23, 2010 to form a government.

On July 8, 2010, she was sworn in as the first woman to be Slovak Prime Minister at the head of a center-right coalition of four parties ( Radičová government ). Your cabinet received parliamentary confidence on August 10, 2010 with all of the coalition's votes (79 out of 145 cast). Rádičová was often criticized by the opposition as a weak head of government and a puppet of their party leader Mikuláš Dzurinda .

On October 11, 2011, Rádičová announced that he would be putting a vote of confidence in parliament because her coalition partner SaS refused to give the necessary approval for the expansion of the European EFSF rescue package. Since the SaS also refused to link this topic with the vote of confidence, its chairman Richard Sulík announced that his party would not take part in the vote. Thus only 55 of the 150 MPs voted for the expansion of the rescue package. This means that the necessary quorum for the vote of confidence has not been achieved either. A majority of 76 votes would have been necessary for a positive answer. With this result, the coalition broke up and Rádičová's term of office ended. Even before the vote, opposition leader Robert Fico of the Social Democrats had announced that if the government failed in a second vote, he would recommend that his group approve the rescue package so that it could finally come into force. Conditions are new elections or a government reshuffle. (see euro crisis ). The agreement between Rádičová's executive government and the opposition on a new election for the National Council on March 10, 2012 went hand in hand with the aim of gaining a majority in parliament on October 14, 2011 for the rescue package.

On November 28, 2011, she took over as Minister of Defense in place of the dismissed Minister Minubomír Galko (SaS). After the lost elections on March 10, 2012 , in which she had not run again, she resigned as Prime Minister in favor of the election winner Robert Fico. In May of the same year, she resigned from the SDKÚ party because it could not break free from the corruption scandals.

Other functions

In 2018, Radičová was appointed by the European Union as coordinator for the trans-European Mediterranean transport corridor (Mediterranean TEN-T Core Network Corridor) for four years, succeeding the Dutchman Laurens Jan Brinkhorst.

Web links

Commons : Iveta Radičová  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Iveta Radičová  - Quotations (Slovak)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Iveta Radičová ( memento of March 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) at mde.politics.ox.ac.uk, accessed on October 25, 2015
  2. ↑ Radičová dostala poverenie zostaviť vládu SME, accessed on June 23, 2010
  3. ↑ cf. Agence France-Presse : Gasparovic re-elected as Slovak President , April 5, 2009
  4. ↑ Radičová sa rozlúčila, aby sa mohla vrátiť SME, accessed on June 23, 2010
  5. ↑ Slovenský prezident pověřil vytvořením vlády Radičovou. Fico přiznal prohru iDnes.cz, accessed June 23, 2010, in Czech
  6. ↑ orf.at, accessed on July 8, 2010
  7. ↑ Woman at the top of Slovakia on ORF from July 8, 2010, accessed on July 8, 2010
  8. ↑ https://www.diepresse.com/579907/slowakei-radicova-als-neue-regierungschefin-angelobt
  9. ↑ atlas.sk: Cabinet Ivety Radičovej dostal dôveru , August 10, 2010
  10. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20160308084519/http://aktualne.atlas.sk/radicova-za-rok-vo-funkcii-zvaznela-menej-zartuje/slovensko/politika/
  11. ↑ http://www.euractiv.de/finanzplatz-europa/artikel/slowakei-radicova-stell-vertreufrage-005478
  12. ↑ Slovakia will still approve the EFSF. In: DiePresse.com. October 12, 2011, accessed January 17, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Iveta Radičová prebrala ministerstvo obrany , Webnoviny.sk, accessed on November 29, 2011
  14. ↑ Commission appoints new coordinators for TEN-T Core Network Corridors , September 14, 2018
  15. ↑ European Commission, DG Mobility and Transport, Mediterranean CNC
personal data
SURNAME Radičová, Iveta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karafiátová (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak sociologist and politician, member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH 7th December 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Bratislava