Fico's Cabinet
The Government Robert Fico served as Government of Slovakia on July 4, 2006 to July 8, 2010 under Prime Minister Robert Fico.
General
In June 2006, new elections were held in Slovakia. They were necessary after Mikuláš Dzurinda's coalition government had lost the parliamentary majority, since they by the parties ANO (Alliance of the New Citizen ) and KDH ( Christian Democratic Movement) was gradually abandoned. KDH left the coalition in early February 2006 as their concern that Slovakia with the Vatican concluding an international treaty on a (Catholic) " conscience of title" for citizens of Slovakia, was rejected by Dzurinda.
The elections ended with a victory of former opposition politician Robert Fico and his party SMER -SD ( Direction - Social Democracy ). The party Mikuláš Dzurinda, the SDKÚ, became the second strongest party, it was no longer her but possible to form a coalition capable of governing. A week after the election, Fico concluded with the parties ĽS - HZDS under Expremier Vladimir Meciar and SNS (Slovak National Party) under Ján Slota a coalition agreement.
Policy of Slovakia under the Fico government
The Fico government has let pensioners pay a special " Christmas " pension, reduced the sales tax on medicines and books from 19% to 10%, introduced by the Dzurinda government fees abolished the doctor lowered the prescription charge, the planned privatization of some exposed to hospitals, made adjustments carried out by the Dzurinda government pension reform ( a to anbahnendes serious deficit in the social security to prevent ), made changes to the Labour Code to increase the protection of workers, the construction of the highway from Bratislava accelerated to Košice, and salary increases for the ( for years underpaid ) Doctors and teachers are at. These measures are on the one hand by the recent strong GDP growth: on the other hand financed through austerity measures in the public sector (2007: 10.4%).
In foreign policy, Slovakia leaned more to Russia and strengthened the relationships with various non-EU countries such as Serbia, Libya and China. So let modernize Slovakia Russian MiG fighters, instead of buying new hunters in the West. In addition, Fico Georgia condemned in 2008 for aggression against South Ossetia. Fico is the construction of a U.S. missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic highly critical (like Russia).
On 21 December 2007, the border fell after Slovakia's accession to the Schengen Agreement away.
In the area of press freedom Slovakia 2007 is in the Press Freedom Index, which is created by the organization Reporters Without Borders, in a world ranking of 169 countries the 3rd place (together with Estonia, Norway and Iceland ). In 2009 she was number 44, along with Spain and Cape Verde. In the economic sphere, however, exceeded in 2007 and 2008, economic growth exceeded all expectations, in 2007 it reached 10.4% ( 14.3% in Q4 2007 compared to the previous quarter).
On 1 January 2009 the euro has been introduced. The government expects, despite the global financial crisis for the year 2009 for the time being (as of the end of December 2008) with a growth rate of 4.7 %, which would be the highest economic growth in the EU.
In the presidential elections on March 21, 2009 qualified Ivan Gašparovič with 46.27 % of the vote and Iveta Radicova with 37.70 % for the second round of voting. In the runoff election on 4 April 2009 Gašparovič won 55.53 % of the vote and is expected to remain so until 2014 in office.
In the parliamentary elections on 12 June 2010, the previous coalition lost its parliamentary majority; the bourgeois opposition, however, won more seats. As Prime Minister Fico could not form a new government, the government abdicated on July 8, 2010, when Iveta Radicova was appointed as the new Prime Minister.
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- Official Site of the Government