List of Presidents of Slovakia

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This is a list of the Presidents of Slovakia.

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[edit] Slovakia (1939-1945)

[edit] Slovakia since 1993

The President of Slovakia is the head of state of Slovakia. Most of his powers are ceremonial. When Slovakia permanently split from Czechoslovakia in 1993, the Prime Minister served as acting President. Then the President was elected by Parliament for a 5-year term. However, when in 1998 the Parliament was unable to choose a President, the Prime Minister and speaker of Parliament became acting Presidents. When after a year the Parliament still could not come to an agreement on the President, the constitution was changed so that the President would be elected by all the voters for a 5-year term. Presidential elections have been held in 1999 and 2004. In order to become President, a candidate must have 50% of the popular vote. If this does not happen in the first round, a runoff is held.

[edit] Latest election

e•d Summary of the 3 and 17 April 2004 Slovakia presidential election results
Candidate Nominating party Votes 1st round % Votes 2nd round %
Ivan Gašparovič Movement for Democracy, People's Union, endorsed by Smer 442,564 22.3 1,079,592 59.9
Vladimír Mečiar People's Party – Movement for a Democratic Slovakia 650,242 32.7 722,368 40.1
Eduard Kukan Slovak Democratic and Christian Union 438,920 22.1
Rudolf Schuster independent, endorsed by the Communist Party of Slovakia 147,549 7.4
František Mikloško Christian Democratic Movement, endorsed by the Party of the Hungarian Coalition 129,414 6.5
Martin Bútora independent, 129,387 6.5
Ján Králik Party of the Democratic Left 15,873 0.8
Jozef Kalman Left Bloc 10,221 0.5
Július Kubík independent 7,734 0.4
Jozef Šesták independent 6,785 0.3
Stanislav Bernát independent 5,719 0.3
Lubo Roman Alliance of the New Citizen, withdrew his candidature on March 15 - -
Total - 1,986,214 - 1,801,960 -

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Fischer (AT) · Albert II (BE2) · Parvanov (BG) · Christofias1 (CY) · Klaus (CZ) · Margrethe II (DK2) · Ilves (ET) · Halonen (FI) · Sarkozy1 (FR) · Köhler (DE) · Papoulias (GR) · Sólyom (HU) · McAleese (IE) · Napolitano (IT) · Zatlers (LV) · Adamkus (LT) · Henri (LU2) · Fenech Adami (MT) · Beatrix (NL2) · Kaczyński (PL) · Cavaco Silva (PT) · Băsescu (RO) · Gašparovič (SK) · Türk (SL) · Juan Carlos I (ES2) · Carl XVI Gustaf (SE2) · Elizabeth II (UK2)
1 Also members of the European Council. 2 Monarchies.
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1 Partially or entirely in Asia, depending on the definition of the border between Europe and Asia.