Ernest Valko

Ernest Valko ( born August 10, 1953 in Ves, † November 8, 2010 in Limbach, Slovakia) was a Slovak lawyer, politician and the only president of the Czechoslovak Federal Constitutional Court.

In 1977 he graduated from the Law Faculty of the Comenius University in Bratislava, from which he was Rigorosum 1979. As a lawyer, he specialized in economic, labor market, civil, criminal and land law. Since January 1990 he was a member of the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly and vice chairman of the House of Representatives. He was, inter alia, involved in changes in labor law, business law, of the Introductory Act to the Constitutional Treaty, the Charter of Fundamental Rights, the Law on the Constitutional Referendum and the Commercial Code.

A dissertation in 2004 was rated excellent.

He was on 31 January 1992 to 31 December 1992, the only president of the Constitutional Court of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic.

From 1993 he worked as a lawyer and has held positions on boards of several companies. He was active in several disputes as that of the poet Lubomir Feldek with the Minister of Culture in the government of Meciar Dušan Slobodník, in a dispute between the gas company SPP and the Bank Union banka in the case of so-called Ducky change or a civil dispute between the Slovak politicians Minister Ivan Miklos and Robert Fico. In the parliamentary elections of 2006 he ran unsuccessfully for the National Council of the Slovak Republic.

On the evening of November 8, 2010, he was shot at his house in Limbach at Bratislava found.