Vladimír Mečiar

Prime Minister of Slovakia

26 July 1942 Zvolen, Slovakia

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13 December 1994 – 30 October 1998

Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia during its dissolution, and later of Slovakia This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. Find sources: "Vladimír Mečiar" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (September 2013 ) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Vladimír Mečiar (Slovak pronunciation:  ; born 26 July 1942) is a Slovak politician who served as Prime Minister of Slovakia three times, from 1990 to 1991, from 1992 to 1994 and from 1994 to 1998. He was the leader of the People's Party - Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (ĽS-HZDS). 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. He has been criticized by his opponents as well as by Western political organisations for having an autocratic style of administration and for his connections to organized crime and his years in government became infamously known as Mečiarizmus (Mečiarism - spin off from Communism, due to its autocracy).