Members of Direction - Social Democracy - Robert Fico, Du an Galis, Pavol Pa Ka, Maro Ef Ovi, Jan Kubi, Sergej Kozlik, Jozef Miga (Paperback)

Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Robert Fico, Du an Galis, Pavol Pa ka, Maro ef ovi, Jan Kubi, Sergej Kozlik, Jozef Miga, Jan Po iatek, Robert Kali ak, Milo Koterec, Zdenko Trebu a. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Robert Fico (born September 15, 1964) is the current Prime Minister of Slovakia (since July 4, 2006). His relatively new left-wing party Direction Social Democracy (Slovak: SMER Socialna demokracia) was the winner of the parliamentary elections in 2006, receiving approximately 30 percent of the cast votes. After the victory he created a coalition with the Slovak National Party an extremist nationalist party led by Jan Slota and with the People's Party - Movement for a Democratic Slovakia led by Vladimir Meiar. Fico was born in a working class family on September 15, 1964, in the town of Topoany. His father was a forklift operator and his mother worked in a shoe store. Fico has two siblings, a brother Ladislav and a sister Lucia. He is married to a wife Svetlana, they have one son. Fico acquired his legal education during the communist rule in then- Czechoslovakia. He graduated from the Law Faculty of the Comenius University at Bratislava and later worked for the Institute of State and Law of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, a communist take on a think-tank body. Fico joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in 1987. After the Velvet Revolution of 1989, following the collapse of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia, Fico joined the Party of the Democratic Left (SDL), a successor of the Communist Party of Slovakia. From 1994 to 2000 Fico as a political appointee represented Slovakia as its legal counsel at the European Court of Human Rights. During this time Fico lost all 14 cases he handled. In 1999 Fico left his SDL party whose support had meanwhile dropped...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=4127226