Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Vladimír Mečiar (born 26 July 1942) is a former Prime Minister of Slovakia: 1990 Minister of the Interior of the Slovak Republic (within Czechoslovakia), 1990-91 and 1992-1994 and 1994-1998 Prime Minister of Slovakia (until 1992 within Czechoslovakia), since 1991 the leader of the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS), called "People's Party-HZDS (Ľudová strana-HZDS)" since 2000 He has been described as having an autocratic style of administration. He was born in Zvolen, the eldest of four boys. His father was a tailor, and his mother a housewife. Meciar has been involved in a number of scandals, including a possible kidnapping (not proven as of 2003). Although Meciar won the September 1998 election, Mikulas Dzurinda became the new Prime Minister. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.