Iveta Radičová

Iveta Radicova ( born Karafiátová; born December 7, 1956 in Bratislava) is a Slovak sociologist and politician. From 2010 to 2012 she was the first woman Prime Minister of Slovakia.

Life

Radicova studied from 1975 to 1979 sociology at the Comenius University in Bratislava and later worked there and in the Slovak Academy of Sciences. In 1990, she completed a post-doctoral studies at the University of Oxford. By 2005, she had guest professorships at universities in the UK, Sweden, Finland, Austria and the U.S. and was parallel to an expert of the European Commission in the area of ​​social policy. Since 2005 she is professor of sociology in Bratislava.

Radicova lives in the village Nová Dedinka ( Okres Senec ), has a daughter and a widow -. , Her husband, the humorist Stano Radič, died 2005 She is fluent in English and Russian, and also has German and Polish skills.

She began her political career as a member of the 1990-1992 movement Public Against Violence ( slowak. Verejnosť proti násiliu ) and was from 2005 to 2006 Minister of Labour, Social Affairs and Family. After the early parliamentary elections in 2006, it was the first time deputies in the Slovak parliament for the opposition party SDKU -DS.

2009 Radicova joined as a candidate of the opposition parties SDKU -DS, KDH and SMK -MKP and the extra-parliamentary OKS on in the presidential election on 21 March 2009. She came in the first round with 38.05 % of votes behind the incumbent President Ivan Gašparovič to second place. In the runoff against Gašparovič on April 4, 2009, she was defeated with 44.47 % of votes. Shortly after, on 23 April 2009, she gave up her seat after she had illicitly voted instead of another Member.

Iveta Radicova joined the parliamentary elections in Slovakia in 2010 as a campaign manager and top candidate of the SDKU -DS. Your party was 15.42% with a large distance behind the Social Democrats ( 34.79 %), although only the second-strongest. Since the Social Democratic incumbent Robert Fico because of the structural majority of the more conservative sectors associated parties SDKU -DS, SaS, KDH and Most -Hid in the Slovak National Council ( together 79 of 150 seats) but failed to form a government, Radicova was commissioned by President Ivan Gašparovič on 23 June 2010 with the formation of a government.

She was sworn in on July 8, 2010 as the first woman as Slovakian Prime Minister at the head of a bourgeois coalition government. My Cabinet received August 10, 2010 with all votes of the coalition (79 of 145 votes ) the confidence of Parliament.

As of July 2010 was the deputy leader of the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union party - Democratic Party ( SDKU -DS) as the first woman Prime Minister of Slovakia and was a four-party coalition before. From October 2011 to early April 2012, she was only provisionally for a lost confidence in office. In early May 2012, she resigned from the party SDKU, as these can not detach themselves from the corruption scandals.

From the opposition Radicova was often criticized as a weak prime minister and puppet of their party leader Mikuláš Dzurinda.

Radicova announced on October 11, 2011 to ask the Parliament's confidence, since their coalition partner SaS refused a necessary approval for the enlargement of the European EFSF bailout fund. Since the SaS also rejected the link on this subject with the vote of confidence, whose chairman Richard Sulík announced that his party would not participate in the vote. Thus only 55 of the 150 deputies voted for the expansion of the rescue fund. Thus also the necessary quorum of confidence was not achieved. Necessary for positive reply with a majority of 76 votes would have been. With this result, the coalition broke up and ended Radičová tenure. Even before the vote, opposition leader Robert Fico announced by the Social Democrats, recommended in case of failure of the government in a second vote approval of his group to rescue, to finally allow its entry into force yet. Conditions were new elections or a government reshuffle. (see euro crisis). The agreement between Radičová caretaker government and the opposition to an election of the National Council of 10 March 2012 coincided with the aim to give the rescue October 14, 2011 a majority in Parliament.

On 28 November 2011 she joined as acting as a defense minister in place of the dismissed minister Lubomir Galko ( SaS ) to. After the lost elections 10 March 2012, at which it had itself but did not stand, she resigned as Prime Minister in favor of the election winner Robert Fico.