Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2014).
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Ivan Gašparovič is a Slovak politician and lawyer who was the third president of Slovakia from 2004 to 2014. He was also the first and currently the only Slovak president to be re-elected.
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politics · President of Slovakia from 2004 to 2014 · politician · teacher · pedagogue · university teacher · jurist · also Ivan Gašparovič, Gašparovič
Born 27 March 1941 · Q57295
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2014).
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Awarded Knight of the Order of the Elephant (2012).
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Awarded Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav (2010).
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (2007).
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Awarded Collar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (2007).
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Awarded Ľudovít Štúr Order 1st class (2004).
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Career landmark: President of Slovakia (2004–2014).
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Awarded Andrej Hlinka Order Class I presented by Vladimír Mečiar (1998).
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Career landmark: President of Slovakia (1998–1998).
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Career landmark: Speaker of the National Council of the Slovak Republic (1993–1998).
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Gašparovič joined the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS, Hnutie za demokratické Slovensko), led by Vladimír Mečiar
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Career landmark: Member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic (1992–2002).
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Joined the Communist Party of Slovakia, supposedly to support Alexander Dubček's reforms, but he was expelled from the party after the Warsaw Pact invasion in Czechoslovakia in August 1968
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Gašparovič married Silvia Beníková, with whom he has two children
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Born 1941-03-27.
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