Mikuláš Dzurinda

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Mikuláš Dzurinda (2017)

Mikuláš Dzurinda (born February 4, 1955 in Spišský Štvrtok ) is a Slovak politician . From 1998 to 2006 he was the fourth Prime Minister of Slovakia and as such led Slovakia into the EU and NATO .

Dzurinda was party leader of the conservative-liberal SDK (1997-2000) and its successor party SDKÚ-DS (2000-2012). He was also Minister of Transport in the Jozef Moravčík government (1994) and Foreign Minister in the Iveta Radičová government (2010–2012).

Life

Dzurinda studied at the Transport University in Žilina and worked in research institutes until 1988, and from 1988 to 1990 for the Czechoslovak Railways . In 1990 he was one of the founders of the Christian Democratic Movement (KDH), and in 1994 he was briefly Minister of Transport in the government of Jozef Moravčík .

In July 1997, five liberal and conservative parties that were in opposition to Prime Minister Vladimír Mečiar , who had been ruling increasingly autocratically and nationalistically since 1994 , formed the Slovak Democratic Coalition (SDK). Dzurinda was elected chairman of the alliance and led it in the parliamentary elections in September 1998 . The SDK became the second largest force with 42 seats in the National Council, just behind Mečiar's HZDS party with 43 seats. However, Mečiar could not find any coalition partners. Dzurinda then formed a four-party coalition from the previous opposition parties SDK, SDĽ (social democratic), SMK-MKP (party of the Hungarian minority) and SOP (social liberal). On October 30, 1998, Dzurinda was elected Prime Minister. Since the office of President was vacant at the time, Dzurinda also exercised the duties of head of state together with Parliament President Jozef Migaš until June 15, 1999 . The Slovak Democratic and Christian Union (SDKÚ) emerged from parts of the SDK in 2000 and was chaired by Dzurinda. He left the KDH, which continued to exist as a separate party.

Dzurinda around 2005

In the National Council election in 2002 , the SDKÚ was again the second strongest force behind the HZDS with 15.1%. However, Dzurinda again succeeded in forming a center-right coalition of four parties - his SDKÚ, the KDH, the Hungarian party SMK-MKP and the new liberal-populist ANO - and thus received a second term as prime minister. The economic policies of Dzurinda's second government followed a radically neoliberal agenda. It introduced a flat tax of 19 percent. The World Bank recognized the reform policy of Slovakia as a world leader, Steve Forbes described the country as an “investor's paradise”. In addition, Slovakia joined NATO and the EU in 2004 . In August 2005, Dzurinda threw the Minister of Economic Affairs Pavol Rusko and his ANO party from the government after a corruption scandal . However, some of the previous ANO MPs continued to support the government. In June 2006 the SDKÚ lost the early parliamentary elections and thus Dzurinda lost the office of Prime Minister. His party received 18%, the competing Social Democrats under Robert Fico 29% of the vote.

After the 2010 parliamentary elections Dzurinda became the foreign minister in the government under Iveta Radičová appointed. He held this office until April 2012. After the National Council election in March 2012 , in which the SDKÚ fell to 6.1%, Dzurinda resigned as party leader. Pavol Frešo was elected to succeed him.

Awards

• 2007: International Prize of the Friedrich August von Hayek Foundation
• 2014: Leopold Kunschak Prize

literature

• Mikuláš Dzurinda: Kde je vôľa, tam je cesta. Môj maratón [Where there's a will, there's a way. My marathon.] LCA, 2002.

Web links

Commons : Mikuláš Dzurinda  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Wikiquote: Mikuláš Dzurinda  - Quotes (Slovak)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Alison Stenning, Adrian Smith, Alena Rochovská and Dariusz Świątek: Domesticating Neo-Liberalism. Spaces of Economic Practice and Social Reproduction in Post-Socialist Cities. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester (W. Sussex) / Malden (MA) 2010, p. 51.
2. ^ Chris Edwards, Daniel J. Mitchell: Global Tax Revolution. The Rise of Tax Competition and the Battle to Defend It. Cato Institute, Washington (DC) 2008, p. 72.
3. ↑ Sonia Ferenčíková, Tatiana Hluskova: Role, Motivation and Performance of International Joint Ventures in Slovakia. In: Svetla Marinova u. a .: Value Creation in International Business. Volume 1, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, p. 88.
4. ↑ Mikulás Dzurinda, former Slovak Prime Minister, receives the Grand Leopold Kunschak Prize . APA notification dated May 12, 2014, accessed February 4, 2015.