Radoslav Procházka

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Radoslav Procházka during a bike tour in 2013.

Radoslav Procházka (born March 31, 1972 in Bratislava ) is a Slovak lawyer , university professor and politician . From 2010 to 2013 he was a member of the Slovak National Council for the Catholic-conservative KDH . Since 2014 he has been chairman of the # Sieť party he founded .

Life

At the beginning of his professional career, he devoted himself to the protection of human rights in addition to academic and pedagogical work. Procházka later worked as a lawyer at the Prague branch of an American law firm, as an advisor to the Constitutional Court and as an advisor to the delegation of the European Commission .

On the day Slovakia joined the European Union, he became the first representative before the European Court of Justice .

Procházka published four monographs in Slovakia and abroad as well as numerous other scientific articles, especially in the field of legal philosophy , European law and constitutional law .

After the Slovak parliamentary elections in 2010 , Procházka moved to the National Council as a member of the Catholic-Conservative KDH . On June 22, 2014, he resigned from the mandate due to his candidacy in the Slovak presidential election. In the election, Procházka reached third place with 21.25% and thus missed the run-off election.

Then Procházka founded his own political party, the # Sieť (German network ). This economically liberal and conservative grouping received 5.6% of the vote in the National Council election in Slovakia in 2016 , after polls had seen it at times as the second strongest force behind Smer - sociálna demokracia .

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