František Mikloško | |
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| Member of theNational Council of the Slovak Republic Slovak National Council until December 31, 2004 | |
| Assumed office 25 October 2023 | |
| In office 1 March 1990 – 12 June 2010 | |
| Speaker of Slovak National Council | |
| In office 26 June 1990 – 23 June 1992 | |
| Preceded by | Rudolf Schuster |
| Succeeded by | Ivan Gašparovič |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1947-06-02)2 June 1947 (age 78) |
| Nationality | Slovak |
| Political party | VPN (1989–1992) KDH (1992–2008) KDS (2008–2014) KDH (2023–present) |
| Spouse | Jana Sasínová |
| Alma mater | Univerzita Komenského,Bratislava |
| Occupation | Mathematician |
František Mikloško (born 2 June 1947) is aSlovak politician. He was theSpeaker of the Slovak National Council from 1990 to 1992 and a long serving MP of theNational Council of the Slovak Republic (1990-2010). For most of his career, he was a member ofChristian Democratic Movement.
Mikloško studied Mathematics at theComenius University, graduating in 1966. Already as a student, he was active in the activities of theCatholic Church, which had a complicated relationship with the Communist regime at the time. At first, Mikloško's activities were limited to low profile organization of small student gatherings while working as a researcher at theSlovak Academy of Sciences. However, since 1980s, Mikloško started gradually to contribute to organization of large religious pilgrimages, which has attracted the attention of the Communist regime. In 1983 he was fired from the Academy and could only work in manual occupations. In spite of the regime repression, Mikloško continued to organize increasingly anti-regime rallies, most prominently theCandle demonstration in Bratislava in 1988. After theVelvet Revolution, he became the firstSpeaker of the Slovak National Council.[1]
Mikloško was one of the longest-serving members of parliament in Slovakia. He was also a candidate in the2004 presidential election and the2009 presidential election. Mikloško did not participate in 2010 parliament election and retired from politics.
On 12 March 2008 František Mikloško, together withVladimír Palko,Pavol Minárik, andRudolf Bauer, established a new party calledConservative Democrats of Slovakia which was dissolved in 2014.
After 15 years, Mikloško returned to run forKDH ahead of2023 parliamentary election.[2]
