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Vladimír Mečiar

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Vladimír Mečiar (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈʋlaɟimiːr ˈmetʂɪɐr]; born 26 July 1942) is a Slovak former politician who served as the prime minister of Slovakia from June 1990 to May 1991, June 1992 to March 1994, and again from December 1994 to October 1998. He was the leader of the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS), a populist party in Slovakia. Mečiar led Slovakia during the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1992–93 and was one of the leading presidential candidates in Slovakia in 1999 and 2004. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vladimír Mečiar has received more than 212,527 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Vladimír Mečiar is the 2,721st most popular politician (up from 2,975th in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Slovakia (up from 22nd in 2019) and the 12th most popular Slovak Politician.

Vladimír Mečiar is most famous for being the Prime Minister of Slovakia from 1992-1998.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Vladimír Mečiar ranks 2,721 out of 19,576. Before him are Petr Pavel, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, Emperor Higashiyama, Eugenius, Emperor Go-Kōmyō, and William I of Sicily. After him are Richard of Cornwall, Nebra, Richard Walther Darré, Canute VI of Denmark, Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, and Dmitry Ustinov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Vladimír Mečiar ranks 61. Before him are Arto Paasilinna, Françoise Dorléac, Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark, Michael Bloomberg, Caetano Veloso, and Stanley B. Prusiner. After him are Martin Seligman, Jacob Zuma, John Clauser, Sandro Mazzola, Felipe González, and Giacomo Agostini.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Vladimír Mečiar ranks 17 out of 418. Before him are Juraj Jánošík (1688), Robert Fico (1964), Béla I of Hungary (1016), Ivan Gašparovič (1941), Pavel Jozef Šafárik (1795), and Maurice Benyovszky (1746). After him are Ármin Vámbéry (1832), Vojtech Tuka (1880), Tibor Sekelj (1912), Jozef Gabčík (1912), Milan Rastislav Štefánik (1880), and Zuzana Čaputová (1973).

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Among POLITICIANS In Slovakia

Among politicians born in Slovakia, Vladimír Mečiar ranks 12. Before him are Francis II Rákóczi (1676), Rudolf von Laban (1879), Juraj Jánošík (1688), Robert Fico (1964), Béla I of Hungary (1016), and Ivan Gašparovič (1941). After him are Vojtech Tuka (1880), Milan Rastislav Štefánik (1880), Zuzana Čaputová (1973), Rudolf Schuster (1934), Pribina (800), and Andrej Hlinka (1864).

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