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	Slovakia.ORG Featured Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Meciar commented that the move from "movement" to "party" was made primarily for practical reasons, although the overall popularity of the tactic was in doubt.
		Meciar with a bullhorn from a considerable distance out in the street, announcing that he was required to submit to arrest immediately on charges of paying illegal bonuses to members of his government.
		Meciar himself said afterward that he would have cooperated with these armed police without resistance had they decided to come to the front door and ring the bell, and that he was upstairs reading the paper at the time of the blast.
	www.slovakia.org /news/0005-3.htm (2106 words)

	East European Constitutional Review
		Meciar's favorite means of building support involved bringing busloads of MDS supporters and potential supporters, mostly the less-educated inhabitants of small cities and villages from central and eastern Slovakia, into Bratislava for his own monthly political rallies.
		Meciar would harangue his audince for hours, treting it to a mix of vulgar humor and emotionl tirades involving tall tales of conspiracies that his opponents were hatching against him, including assasination plots.
		Meciarism differs clearly from monocratic single-party and bureaucratic authoritarian regimes, insofar as rulers in the latter two types of systems, despite their frequent high-handedness, normally attempt to establish, and play within, some system of regularized procedures.
	www.law.nyu.edu /eecr/vol8num1-2/special/endofmec.html (5009 words)

	Vladimir Meciar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On January 11 1990, when the VPN was looking for professionals to participate in the government of Slovakia, Meciar was appointed the new Minister of the Interior and Environment of Slovakia on a recommendation of Alexander Dubček;, who was impressed by Meciar‘s thorough knowledge in all relevant fields.
		Meciar was elected HZDS chairman in June 1991.
		The winners of the June 1992 elections in Czechoslovakia and new prime ministers were the Civic Democratic Party led by Vaclav Klaus in the Czech Republic and the HZDS led by Vladimir Meciar in Slovakia.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/vladimir_meciar (1227 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Former Slovak PM charged with corruption
		Mr Meciar was seized early on Wednesday after masked police commandos used explosives to break down a door to his villa in the central Slovak town of Trencianske Teplice.
		Vladimir Meciar, a populist nationalist who rose to power after the fall of communism was Slovak prime minister for five years during the 1990s.
		Mr Meciar was unseated at elections in 1998 by a coalition of four parties pledging closer ties with the West.
	news.bbc.co.uk /low/english/world/europe/newsid_720000/720364.stm (539 words)

	Slovakia's Meciar poised to enter the ring again - Apr. 05, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Meciar's Movement for Democratic Slovakia (HZDS) party garnered the most votes in the 2002 general elections but failed to form a governing coalition due to political isolation.
		Meciar increasingly tapped the nationalism that lay dormant under communism to give Slovakia its own identity and shed the inferiority complex it felt towards its better-off partner, the Czechs.
		It was Meciar as Slovak prime minister who negotiated the final split of Czechoslovakia, the so-called "Velvet Divorce" in 1993 with then Czech premier Vaclav Klaus, against the wishes of Czechoslovak President Vaclav Havel.
	www.inq7.net /wnw/2004/apr/05/wnw_7-1.htm (478 words)

	Samizdat 2000 by Christine Stone
		Meciar was taken into police custody and charged with fraud and abuse of power for, allegedly, handing out illegal bonuses worth c.$325,000 to members of his cabinet during his 5 years in power.
		Meciar is the most popular politician in Slovakia and his party, the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS), consistently gains the highest opinion poll ratings in the country.
		As soon as Meciar was defeated, Slovakia was welcomed into the club of aspiring EU members and once there it was obliged to pursue a policy of cutting public spending and setting high interest rates.
	www.antiwar.com /stone/stone042100.html (2263 words)

	Vladimer Meciar
		Vladimer Meciar, former leader of Slovakia, was often feared and hated, and a dictator-like leader.
		Meciar's government and the daily newspaper SME, which was supposed to pay each government member a high fine for writing badly about them.
		Meciar had a large part in the split between Slovakia and the Czech Republic in January 1993.
	user.intop.net /~jhollis/meciar.htm (804 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Autocrat Meciar in Shock Slovak Vote Upset (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Vladimir Meciar, the autocrat who made Slovakia a 1990s diplomatic pariah, scored a shock victory in a first round of presidential elections this weekend, just weeks before the country joins the European Union.
		BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Vladimir Meciar, the autocrat who made Slovakia a 1990s diplomatic pariah, scored a shock victory in a first round of presidential elections this weekend, just weeks before the country joins the European Union.
		Meciar to advance to the second round, but frankly we did not expect such a significant success.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2004/04/04/autocrat_meciar_in_shock_slovak_vote_upset (640 words)

	Station Information - Vladimir Meciar
		His father was a tailor, and his mother a housewife.
		Meciar has been involved in a number of scandals, including a possible kidnapping (not proven as of 2003).
		Although Meciar won the September 1998 election, Mikulas Dzurinda became the new Prime Minister.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/v/vl/vladimir_meciar.html (127 words)

	Vladimir Meciar Biography / Biography of Vladimir Meciar Biography Biography
		As one of the most prominent of politicians in a newly de-Communized Eastern Europe, Slovak leader Vladimir Meciar (born 1942) has been called the "architect of his country's independence," but has also faced criticism for his role in the breakup of the former Czechoslovakia.
		Vladimir Meciar, a lawyer and onetime Communist, rose to political power after the "Velvet Revolution" of 1989 that ousted decades of socialist, pro-Soviet leadership in Czechoslovakia.
		Meciar was born in 1942 in Zvolen, Czechoslovakia--in the Slovak region of the country--into a proletariat family where his mother, even after the rise to prominence of her son, worked as a janitor in a factory.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-vladimir-meciar (250 words)

	East European Constitutional Review
		For example, former prime minister Vladimir Meciar (Movement for Democratic Slovakia [MDS]) is said to have entered the presidential raceÑjust a few hours before the registration deadline expired and despite his earlier vow that he was leaving politics for good) because a victory would allow him to grant Lexa amnesty (Art.
		Meciar's late entry into the race was quite exceptional, as most of the other candidates had already begun their campaigns.
		In the first round, Schuster drew 47 percent of the vote, followed by Vladimir Meciar with 37 percent; Vasaryova was a distant third with 6 percent (even though, according to the last opinion poll, she enjoyed the support of 17 percent of the electorate), and Slota gained only 2 percent.
	www.law.nyu.edu /eecr/vol8num3/constitutionwatch/slovakia.html (1807 words)

	Vladimir Meciar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On January 11 1990, when the VPN was looking for professionals toparticipate in the government of Slovakia, Meciar was appointed the new Minister of the Interior and Environment of Slovakia on arecommendation of Alexander Dubček, who was impressed byMeciar‘s thorough knowledge in all relevant fields.
		The winners of the June 1992 elections inCzechoslovakia and new prime ministers were the CivicDemocratic Party led by Vaclav Klaus in the Czech Republic and the HZDSled by Vladimir Meciar in Slovakia.
		On April 3, 2004, Meciar won a plurality ofthe vote (32.7%) in the first round of Slovakia's presidential election.
	www.therfcc.org /vladimir-meciar-154140.html (1182 words)

	The Members of Government of the Slovak Republic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Vladimir Meciar was born on July 26, 1942 in Zvolen, central Slovakia.
		Vladimir Meciar played a key role in the process of a peaceful division of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic which gave rise to two independent and sovereign states on January 1, 1993.
		Vladimir Meciar is married and father of four children.
	www.government.gov.sk /VLADA/VLADA_1994-2/CLENOVIA/en_predseda_1994-2.shtml (359 words)

	IPI - International Press Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Meciar ruled Slovakia from 1993 to 1998 in a heavy-handed way and his democratic credentials are dubious, to say the least.
		In 1997, for example, Meciar announced that his government had cancelled their weekly press conferences because journalistic standards were "too low" and while in power he regularly lashed out at journalists.
		The journalists were covering a Meciar rally in the run-up to the presidential elections at which a mother accused the former Prime Minister of murdering her son.
	www.freemedia.at /wpfr/Europe/slovakia.htm (8002 words)

	Who the Hell is Vladimir Meciar? - 08/12/92 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Meciar was born 50 years ago in the central Slovakian town of Zvolen.
		Meciar finished secondary school in 1959 and became a junior official in the district national committee of the Communist Party.
		It was in the months between Meciar's removal from office and the elections in June in which he adopted the vague populist nationalism that lead to his party's success and the beginning of talks on the dissolution of Czechoslovakia.
	kenlayne.com /1992/0812_meciar.html (733 words)

	Opinion: The Prague Post Online
		After Meciar's Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS) won the largest bloc of seats in the parliamentary elections last autumn but was ousted from power by a unified multiparty opposition, Slovakia's strong man has now been defeated for the second time in eight months.
		If Meciar is going to remain on the scene, so will his party, and this was probably the main reason why Meciar decided to run: to push HZDS back into the game.
		Meciar's strong showing in the presidential race reminded them that there were some good reasons for their marriage, but the question is how long it will last.
	www.praguepost.cz /opin060999c.html (871 words)

	CNN.com - Poll puts Slovakia on track for EU - Sep. 21, 2002
		Exit polls show ex-premier Vladimir Meciar leading in Slovakian elections, but too weak to be re-elected in the face of opposition from potential coalition partners.
		Exit polls gave Meciar's nationalist HZDS the biggest single block of votes, about 17 percent, but well below the 27 percent polled in 1998 when he was kept from power by a broad rightist coalition.
		Meciar, a 60-year-old former boxer-turned-lawyer, took Slovakia to the brink of economic collapse and angered the international community during his 1994-1998 administration with a policy mix condemned by the U.S. and Europe as corrupt and xenophobic.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/09/21/slovak.exit (495 words)

	BHHRG
		The basic facts of Meciar's biography are: born in 1942 in Zvolen, Central Slovakia, he worked as a regional administrator and then rose to a senior position in the government's bureau of audit having studied along the way in Moscow.
		In January, 1990, Meciar was appointed Minister of the Interior in the new Slovak government.
		Meciar's unpopularity and the inevitability of his losing the election were taken for granted.
	www.bhhrg.org /CountryReport.asp?ChapterID=532&CountryID=21&ReportID=178&keyword= (1017 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		In Bratislava, the knives are also out, it seems, for Vladimir Meciar, the strongman of Slovak politics who dominated the scene throughout much of the 1990s.
		Meciar, a company lawyer until 1989, briefly served as Slovak interior minister before being appointed in 1990 to the first of three stints as Slovak prime minister.
		That same year, Meciar came in top in general elections, but it wasn't enough to form a government, and he was kept from power by a group of reformist parties.
	www.rferl.org /features/2002/10/10102002151153.asp (1242 words)

	Printed Version
		Vladimir Meciar’s government in Slovakia was repeatedly accused during its period in office (1994-98) of politicising the civil service and the privatisation of the economy, undermining the rule of law and suppressing diversity in the media.
		This means Mr Meciar renounced his automatic immunity from arrest, something rather surprising in someone repeatedly threatened with prosecution by the government and its media allies before and after the election.
		Meciar’s government was widely criticised for Slovakia’s relatively high rate of unemployment (12%) which elsewhere would be regarded as an index of reform.
	www.bhhrg.org /Print.asp?ReportID=174&CountryID=21 (4231 words)

	Slovakia's New President is Ivan Gasparovic - Slovensko.com
		Ivan Gasparovic defeated Vladimir Meciar with 59.91% of votes against 40.09% in the second round of presidential elections with turnout of 43.50%.
		In 1992 he was elected the deputy for the Vladimir Meciar's Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS) and became the speaker of the Slovak Parliament until 1998.
		Then he was again elected as the deputy for HZDS, but when Vladimir Meciar did not include him on the list of candidates for the 2002 Elections, he left the party and founded his own Movement for Democracy (HZD), which was unsuccessful in the elections and Gasparovic had to return to the Law Faculty.
	www.slovensko.com /news/1166 (616 words)

	Links from the Slovak Embassy
		Meciar's nationalist party with the biggest single block of votes, around 17.5 percent, but well below the 27 percent it polled in 1998 when he was kept from power by a broad rightist coalition.
		Meciar was the first prime minister of the independent Slovakia in 1993-94 and held the post again in 1994-98.
		Meciar behaved erratically in the final days of the campaign, throwing a punch at a television reporter who asked him how he paid for $1 million in improvements to his luxurious home and walking off the stage during a televised discussion when asked the same question.
	www.slovakembassy-us.org /vlada.html (4945 words)

	Slovaks head to the polls – with EU, NATO directives \| csmonitor.com
		Meciar headed Slovakia's government after its 1992 independence from Czechoslovakia until 1998, and he has remained the single most powerful politician – even after being deposed by a broad coalition of opposition parties.
		Meciar's administration was condemned by human rights groups and Western governments as lacking commitment to democratic principles.
		Meciar has a reputation as one of modern Europe's greatest orators, and he still has a loyal core of support.
	www.csmonitor.com /2002/0917/p07s02-woeu.htm (1116 words)

	Meciar, Vladimir -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		A former amateur boxer, Vladimir Meciar charged aggressively out of his corner in early 1993 as prime minister of the newly created Slovak Republic.
		As the year progressed, however, Meciar was sent reeling from a series of blows, most delivered by a stagnant economy that undermined his previous popularity.
		The country's first prime minister was Vladimir Meciar, a former Communist who had promoted nationalist sentiment to achieve separation from Czechoslovakia.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9115260?tocId=9115260 (682 words)

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		Well friends, in the actual presidential election last Saturday, it was Vladimir Meciar who came in first place, by far, with 32,7% of the votes, as recorded in Mladá fronta dnes in the article Slovak Shock: Meciar Wins.
		And the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Newsline reports that Meciar on 6 April "became the first Slovak lawmaker [ever] to be punished for repeated absenteeism," as he was fined one month's salary by current Slovak parliamentary speaker Pavol Hrusovsky.
		Meciar will not be good for Slovakia," and that Slovakia under Meciar could misbehave such as to (temporarily) lose its EU membership.
	www.eurosavant.com /more.php?id=279_0_1_0_M (1830 words)

	Slovakia takes up membership in the European Union with extreme right-wing president
		The reason figures such as Meciar and Gasparovic were able to win lies in the policies of the ruling conservative coalition that has lost all popular support due to the brutal social attacks over its past six years in power.
		Gasparovic’s victory over Meciar is due to the support he received from Smer, a populist party that emerged from the successor organisation of the country’s former ruling Stalinist party, and that enjoys a considerable lead in current opinion polls.
		Although in the mid-1990s the EU refused to hold entry negotiations with Meciar as head of government, citing his racist, corrupt and utterly undemocratic policies, Slovakia is now entering into the EU with a president who is Meciar’s exact political double.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/apr2004/slov-a26_prn.shtml (1574 words)

	HELSINKI
		On March 11, the government of Vladimir Meciar was defeated by a no-confidence vote and a coalition government was formed by Jozef Moravcik, former Slovak foreign minister.
		Although election observers did not report any significant irregularities on election day, voters in some precincts, including Vladimir Meciar himself, were unable to vote on the first day of the elections because their names did not appear on the election lists.
		The Meciar government repeatedly refused to approve legislation that was of particular concern to the Hungarian minority and that had been recommended by the Council of Europe when it approved the Slovak Republic's membership in October 1993.
	www.hrw.org /reports/1995/WR95/HELSINKI-14.htm (949 words)

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