Martin Fedor is a member of Slovak National Council and he served as Minister of Defence of Slovakia after the resignation:ICE: Insight Central Europe
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Early life

Martin Fedor was born on March 4, 1974, in

Považská Bystrica Považská Bystrica (; ; ) is a town in northwestern Slovakia. It is located on the Váh river, around 30 km from the city of Žilina. It belongs to Upper Váh region of tourism. Profile Považská Bystrica is situated in a fold of mounta ...

. He studied international relations at Comenius University in Bratislava from 1992 to 1997. After he received a master's degree in political sciences he continued with more educational activities and work for several privately held organizations. Martin Fedor is married.

Political career

Martin Fedor joined the

Slovak Democratic and Christian Union Slovak may refer to: * Something from, related to, or belonging to Slovakia (''Slovenská republika'') * Slovaks, a Western Slavic ethnic group * Slovak language, an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Slavic languages * Slovak, Arkan ...

in 2001 and he has been active in politics ever since. He was also a member of Slovak Democratic and Christian Union youth association - New Generation since 2001. * 1996 - 1998 - personal secretary to Mr. Dzurinda * 1998 - 2000 - head of office of the prime minister * 2000 - 2002 - director of international relations of

* 2002 - 2003 - work at Embassy in Ireland * 2003 - 2006 - deputy Minister of Defence of Slovakia * 2006 -

Minister of Defence A ministry of defence or defense (see spelling differences), also known as a department of defence or defense, is the part of a government responsible for matters of defence and military forces, found in states where the government is divid ...

of Slovakia * 2006 - ''present'' - member of Slovak National Council He left SDKÚ-DS in 2016 and joined

Radoslav Procházka Radoslav Procházka (born 31 March 1972) is a Slovaks, Slovak lawyer, former politician and former leader of the political party NETWORK (Slovak party), Sieť. He was an unsuccessful candidate in 2014 Slovak presidential election, running as an in ...

's #Network. After receiving only 5.6% in the 2016 Slovak parliamentary elections, and secret talks between Procházka and

Robert Fico Robert Fico (; born 15 September 1964) is a Slovak politician who has served as the prime minister of Slovakia since 2023. He previously served as prime minister from 2006 to 2010 and from 2012 to 2018. He founded the left-wing political party D ...

to join the coalition government led by SMER-SD, #Network started to fall apart, and after few months all the group's MPs had either become independent (going on to form the new party SPOLU) or joined another coalition party, Most-Híd. Fedor joined Most-Híd in 2016 and been a member since then.

Political party membership

* 2001 - 2014 -

* 2001 - 2014 - Slovak Democratic and Christian Union youth association - New Generation * 2015 - 2016 - #Network * 2016 - ''present'' - Most–Híd

References

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* https://web.archive.org/web/20061208065233/http://www.government.gov.sk/english/minister_mo.html * 1974 births Living people People from Považská Bystrica Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party politicians slovak Conservative Party politicians Most–Híd politicians Defence ministers of Slovakia Members of the National Council (Slovakia) 2006-2010 Members of the National Council (Slovakia) 2010-2012 Members of the National Council (Slovakia) 2012–2016 Members of the National Council (Slovakia) 2016–2020 {{Slovakia-politician-stub