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Slovakia (11) -- News -- 2010
Iveta Radicova -
Slovakia's first female prime minister
08.07.2010
Iveta Radicova was installed as
Slovakia's first female prime minister on July 8, 2010, heading a coalition government of SDKU-DS, SaS, KDH, and Most-Hid.
In the election on June 12, 2010, the SDKU-DS came in a distant second place with 15.42% of the vote, far behind the center-left Smer party of Prime Minister Robert Fico,
which received 34.79% of the votes. However, Fico's coalition partners, the ultra-nationalist Slovak National Party and the national-conservative HZDS, performed poorly,
with HZDS failing to win any seats in parliament. As a result, a coalition of four center-right opposition parties - the liberal Freedom and Solidarity (SaS), the
Christian Democratic Movement (KDH), the ethnic Hungarian Most–Hid party, and Radicova's SDKU-DS - were able to form a majority in parliament with 79 out of 150 seats.
After Fico proved unable to form a new government, Radicova, as leader of the largest opposition party, was asked to form a government by President Gasparovic on June 23, 2010.
Slovakia (11) -- Analyses -- 2010
More about Radikova
08.07.2010
Radicova was born in Bratislava on December 7, 1956. She has one daughter and is the widow of Stano Radic, a famous Slovak comedian and actor who died in 2005.
In addition to her native Slovak, Radicova speaks English and Russian fluently and has good knowledge of German and Polish.
Radicova studied at the Comenius University in Bratislava from 1975 to 1981 earning a PhDr. in Sociology. In 1990, she pursued postdoctoral studies
at the University of Oxford. She has served as a professor of sociology at Comenius University in Bratislava and as the head of the Institute for Sociology at
the Slovak Academy of Sciences.
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