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Vladimír Mečiar

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Vladimír Mečiar (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈʋlaɟimiːr ˈmetʂɪɐr]; born 26 July 1942) is a Slovak former politician who served as the prime minister of Slovakia from June 1990 to May 1991, June 1992 to March 1994, and again from December 1994 to October 1998. He was the leader of the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS), a populist party in Slovakia. Mečiar led Slovakia during the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1992–93 and was one of the leading presidential candidates in Slovakia in 1999 and 2004. During his time in office, he was criticized for his autocratic style of governance and connections to organized crime, which became known as Mečiarizmus ("Mečiarism"). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vladimír Mečiar is the 2,974th most popular politician (down from 2,721st in 2019), the 18th most popular biography from Slovakia (down from 17th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Slovak Politician.

Vladimír Mečiar is most famous for being the Prime Minister of Slovakia from 1992-1998.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Vladimír Mečiar ranks 2,974 out of 19,576Before him are Vladimir Ivashko, Princess Benedikte of Denmark, Alcinous, Anastasia Romanovna, Léon Gambetta, and Zhao Gao. After him are Kyösti Kallio, Margaret III, Countess of Flanders, Necho I, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Louis I of Spain, and Al-Muqtadir.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Vladimír Mečiar ranks 72Before him are Giacomo Agostini, Jacob Zuma, Sandro Mazzola, Arto Paasilinna, Neil Kinnock, and Emmerson Mnangagwa. After him are Tobin Bell, Robert H. Grubbs, Hissène Habré, Martin Seligman, Françoise Dorléac, and Wolfgang Schäuble.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Vladimír Mečiar ranks 18 out of 418Before him are Rudolf von Laban (1879), Ivan Gašparovič (1941), Juraj Jánošík (1688), Tibor Sekelj (1912), Pavel Jozef Šafárik (1795), and Maurice Benyovszky (1746). After him are Ármin Vámbéry (1832), Jozef Gabčík (1912), Vojtech Tuka (1880), Ernst von Dohnányi (1877), Milan Rastislav Štefánik (1880), and Ľudovít Štúr (1815).

Among POLITICIANS In Slovakia

Among politicians born in Slovakia, Vladimír Mečiar ranks 12Before him are Ferenc Szálasi (1897), Robert Fico (1964), Béla I of Hungary (1016), Rudolf von Laban (1879), Ivan Gašparovič (1941), and Juraj Jánošík (1688). After him are Vojtech Tuka (1880), Milan Rastislav Štefánik (1880), Pribina (800), Andrej Babiš (1954), Zuzana Čaputová (1973), and Rudolf Schuster (1934).