Jozef Moravčík government
The Jozef Moravčík government acted as the interim government of Slovakia from March 15, 1994 to December 13, 1994 under Prime Minister Jozef Moravčík . The influence of the government was de facto already in the night of 3-4. November 1994 ended by the then still unofficial new government coalition of the parties HZDS , ZRS and SNS .
Government formation and program
After the second government of Prime Minister Vladimír Mečiar (1992-1994) was overthrown by a vote of no confidence on March 15, 1994, a short-term nine-month interim government was formed under Jozef Moravčík, which ruled the country until the early elections in September 1994. During this time, the Moravčík government took a clearly pro-Western course, advocated rapid privatization of the economy and now took out a long-rejected IMF loan of 265 million US dollars from Mečiar. In foreign policy, the new government tried to replace relations with Russia by intensifying contacts with Ukraine under Leonid Kravchuk . Domestically, the government was able to improve the cultural situation of the Hungarian minority by adopting bilingual place-name signs for settlements with a population of more than 20% Hungary.
Government composition
Prime Minister
- Jozef Moravčík (DEÚS)
Vice Prime Minister
- Ivan Šimko (KDH) - Vice Prime Minister for the Legislature
- Roman Kováč (DEÚS) - Vice-Prime Minister for non-economic resorts
- Brigita Schmögnerová (SDĽ) - Vice Prime Minister for Economy
minister
- Eduard Kukan (DEÚS) - Foreign Minister
- Pavol Kanis (SDĽ) - Minister of Defense
- Ladislav Pittner (KDH) - Minister of the Interior
- Milan Hanzel (SDĽ) - Minister of Justice
- Rudolf Filkus (DEÚS) - Minister of Finance
- Peter Magvaši (SDĽ) - Minister of Economy
- Milan Janičina (NDS) - Minister of Administration and Privatization of State Property
- Mikuláš Dzurinda (KDH) - Minister of Transport, Connections and Public Works
- Pavol Koncoš (SDĽ) - Minister of Agriculture
- Juraj Hraško (SDĽ) - Environment Minister
- Július Brocka (KDH) - Minister of Labor, Social Affairs and Family
- Tibor Šagát (KDH) - Minister of Health
- Ľubomír Harach (SDĽ) - Minister of Education and Science
- Ľubomír Roman (KDH) - Minister of Culture
literature
- Milan S. Ďurica: Dejiny Slovenska a Slovákov v časovej následnosti faktov dvoch tisícročí , LÚČ, Bratislava 2007, ISBN 978-80-7114-610-0
- Hannes Hofbauer, David X. Noack: Slovakia: The laborious way to the west , Promedia Verlag, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-85371-349-5