Iveta Radičová

Prime Minister of Slovakia

7 December 1956 Bratislava, Czechoslovakia

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8 July 2010 – 4 April 2012

Slovak politician and sociologist, former prime minister Iveta Radičová (Slovak pronunciation:  ; born 7 December 1956) served as the first woman Prime Minister of Slovakia from 2010 to 2012. She led a coalition government, in which she also briefly held the post of Minister of Defence in the last five months of the coalition. Previously she had served as Minister of Labour from 2005 to 2006 in the second Dzurinda government. In the 2009 presidential election Radičová unsuccessfully ran for the office of President of Slovakia. As of March 2012 she stated that she has retired from politics.