Martin Fedor
Slovak Minister of Defence and member of Slovak National Council
Martin Fedor is a member of the Slovak National Council who served as Minister of Defence of Slovakia after the resignation of Juraj Liška because of a Slovak Air Force An-24 crash in 2006.
Early life
Martin Fedor was born on March 4, 1974, in Považská Bystrica. 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 private organizations. Martin Fedor is married.
Political career
Martin Fedor joined the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union in 2001 and 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 Mikuláš Dzurinda
1998 - 2000 - head of office of the prime minister
2000 - 2002 - director of international relations of Slovak Democratic and Christian Union
2002 - 2003 - work at Embassy in Ireland
2003 - 2006 - deputy Minister of Defence of Slovakia
2006 - Minister of Defence of Slovakia
2006 - present - member of Slovak National Council
He left SDKÚ-DS in 2016 and joined Radoslav Procházka's #Network. After receiving only 5.6% votes in the 2016 Slovak parliamentary elections, and secret talks between Procházka and Robert Fico to join the coalition government led by SMER-SD, #Network started to fall apart, and after a 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.
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