Robert Kaliňák

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Robert Kaliňák

Robert Kaliňák (born May 11, 1971 in Bratislava ) is a Slovak politician .

Life

Kaliňák studied at the Faculty of Law at the Comenius University in Bratislava . Until 2002 he worked as a lawyer. He is a member of the SMER . In the parliamentary elections in 2006 , 2010 and 2012 he was a member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic . Kaliňák was Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister of the Fico government from 2006 to 2010 .

In April 2012 he was again Minister of the Interior and Deputy Prime Minister in the second and in March 2016 in the third Fico cabinet . On March 12, 2018, two weeks after the double murder of journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancé, Kaliňák resigned from both positions.

Kaliňák is married and has had a son since Christmas 2011.

Involvement in the Trịnh Xuân Thanh kidnapping case

Kaliňák is suspected of being involved in the kidnapping of the Vietnamese manager Trịnh Xuân Thanh during his time as Minister of the Interior . Trịnh Xuân Thanh was forcibly kidnapped in Berlin's Tiergarten in 2017 and taken to Vietnam. He was allegedly kidnapped by the Vietnamese secret service and then flown out of the Schengen area on a Slovak aircraft.

Political positions

During the refugee crisis in Europe in 2015 , the Slovak interior minister commented several times on questions of asylum and refugee policy: If someone crosses the border illegally, they either intend to become an immigrant and will be detained, or they will apply for asylum and there will be an asylum procedure carried out. Anyone who does not apply for asylum is not a refugee. He criticized the discussion about whether Greece, Turkey or Hungary were safe states .

As Minister of the Interior, he publicly doubted whether one could speak of “refugees” and “humanism”, especially since these people, according to Kaliňák, have nothing in common with refugees fleeing the war. Before the EU interior ministers' summit on September 14, 2015, which was to be devoted to the introduction of quotas for the individual member states, he said that hardly anyone wanted to see reality or listen to arguments. "We are hiding behind decisions made by officials who did not see reality, and the basic rules that would have always required them are abolished ," said Minister Kaliňák. He said he was authorized by Prime Minister Robert Fico to veto deals at the September 14, 2015 summit .

Web links

Wikiquote: Robert Kaliňák  - Quotes (Slovak)

Footnotes

  1. ↑ http://www.pragerzeitung.cz/?c_id=8304 Who is who in the Slovak government, Prager Zeitung - July 26, 2006
  2. ↑ http://www.europa-auf-einen-blick.de/slowakei/politik.php Europe at a glance: Slovakia
  3. ↑ Robert Kaliňák ukázal prvého syna Toto per náš Andrejko! published on April 4, 2012
  4. ↑ sueddeutsche.de
  5. ↑ Slovakia: Fico sworn in as Prime Minister , published on January 8, 2012, last accessed on April 5, 2012
  6. ↑ Marina Mai: Kidnapping case Trinh Xuan Thanh: Bill for government flight . In: The daily newspaper: taz . December 1, 2019, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed December 2, 2019]).
  7. ↑ Sebastian Erb: Kidnapped Vietnamese Trinh Xuan Thanh: Who was on flight SSG004? In: The daily newspaper: taz . May 4, 2018, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed December 2, 2019]).
  8. ↑ a b Kto nepožiada o azyl nie je utečenec, tvrdí Kaliňák ; "Those who do not apply for asylum are not refugees," explains Kaliňák "(Slovak).
personal data
SURNAME Kaliňák, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak politician, member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Bratislava