Vladimír Mečiar

Prime Minister of Slovakia (1990–1991; 1992–1994; 1994–1998)

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President: Michal Kováč
Preceded by: Jozef Moravčík
Succeeded by: Mikuláš Dzurinda
Prime minister: Milan Čič

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Vladimír Mečiar (born 26 July 1942) is a Slovak former politician who served as the prime minister of Slovakia from June 1990 to May 1991, June 1992 to March 1994, and again from December 1994 to October 1998. He was the leader of the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS), a populist party in Slovakia.

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. During his time in office, he was criticized for his autocratic style of governance and connections to organized crime, which became known as Mečiarizmus ("Mečiarism").