Vladimír Palko

Vladimír Palko

Vladimír Palko (born May 20, 1957 in Čunovo ) is a Slovak mathematician and politician . From 2002 to 2006 he was Interior Minister of Slovakia , since 2008 he has been chairman of the Conservative Democratic Party of Slovakia (KDS).

Childhood and youth

According to his own statements, Palko comes "from an average Catholic Slovak family". In 1977 he got into first conflicts with the ČSSR regime. He then met Catholic dissidents such as the lawyer Ján Čarnogurský , the mathematician and physicist František Mikloško and the political leader of the Czechoslovak underground church , Bishop Ján Chryzostom Korec , as well as Silvester Krčméry and Vlado Jukl , who spent many years in prisons because of their faith and the informal secret church had founded. In 1981 he completed his mathematics studies at the Comenius University in Bratislava (Pressburg), but was not allowed to work as a teacher due to his Christian belief.

Political commitment

On March 25, 1988, Palko took part in one of the first major opposition events in what was then the Eastern Bloc, the candle demonstration in Pressburg (Bratislava). After the revolution in 1990 he joined the Christian Democratic Movement (KDH) and rose to become the party's deputy chairman in 1996. In the meantime he had also received his doctorate in natural sciences ( RNDr. ). He was elected three times as a member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic .

From October 16, 2002 to February 8, 2006, Palko was Minister of the Interior in the second cabinet of Prime Minister Mikuláš Dzurinda . His successor in office was Martin Pado .

In 2008 he left the KDH together with his parliamentary group colleagues František Mikloško, Pavol Minárik and Rudolf Bauer out of disappointment with the course of the party leader Pavol Hrušovský, who had been in office since 2000, too far from the social democratic SMER SD . On March 12, 2008 he founded the Conservative Democratic Party of Slovakia (KDS), which he has chaired since then.

Palko represents conservative Catholic positions and is a staunch supporter of Catholic moral teaching. In 2012 he published his book "Levy prichádzajú" (German: "The lions are coming"), in which he criticized the "anthropological revolution" that he believed to be based on the Italian Marxist Gramsci , which was based on a complete change in social morality in Europe and North America aim, grapple.

Palko is currently a lecturer at the Faculty of Computer Science at the private Pan-European University in Pressburg and is the editor of the Catholic Slovak quarterly magazine "Impulz".

literature

• The lions are coming - Why Europe and America are heading towards a new tyranny , fe-medienverlags GmbH, Kißlegg 2014, ISBN 978-3-863-57072-9

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The communists are sitting in Brussels today . In: DIE FREIE WELT , November 20, 2014. Retrieved December 15, 2014.
2. ↑ Vladimír Palko: The lions are coming , fe-medienverlags GmbH, Kißlegg 2014, p. 20.
3. ↑ The communists are sitting in Brussels today . In: DIE FREIE WELT , November 20, 2014. Accessed December 4, 2014.
4. ↑ The victory of Mikulas Dzurindas over the opinion polls . In: Die Presse , September 23, 2002. Accessed December 9, 2014.
5. ↑ Ľudia ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Konzervatívni Demokratiei Slovenska . Retrieved December 8, 2014. 
6. ↑ The communists are sitting in Brussels today . In: DIE FREIE WELT , November 20, 2014. Accessed December 4, 2014.
7. ↑ The communists are sitting in Brussels today . In: DIE FREIE WELT , November 20, 2014. Retrieved December 15, 2014.
8. ↑ [1] . In: Impulz . Retrieved December 9, 2014.