The winners of the June 1992 elections in Czechoslovakia and new prime ministers were the Civic Democratic Party led by Václav Klaus in the Czech Republic and the HZDS led by Vladimír Mečiar in Slovakia.

Since these two concepts were irreconcilable, Mečiar and Klaus agreed ( after intense negotiations, but without having consulted the population in a referendum ) on 23 July in Bratislava to dissolve Czecho-Slovakia and to create two independent states.

As a result, Mečiar and Klaus became the prime ministers of two independent states on 1 January 1993.

During the 1992 negotiations about the details of dissolution of Czechoslovakia, on demand by Vladimír Mečiar and Václav Klaus, a clause forbidding use of state symbols of Czechoslovakia by successor states was inserted into the Law about dissolution of ČSFR.

During the 1992 negotiations about the details of dissolution of Czechoslovakia, on demand made by Vladimír Mečiar and Václav Klaus, a clause forbidding use of state symbols of Czechoslovakia by successor states was inserted into the Constitutional Law about the Dissolution of Czechoslovakia.

In 1993 Matica made an agreement with the authoritarian prime minister of Slovakia Vladimír Mečiar.

The first prime minister, Vladimír Mečiar, had served as the prime minister of the Slovak part of Czechoslovakia since 1992.

Recognising that these positions were irreconcilable, the National Council voted for Slovakia's Declaration of Independence by 113 votes to 24, and Mečiar concluded formal negotiations over the dissolution of Czechoslovakia.

First, the party split into two fractions in early March 1991: the Mečiar supporters ( mostly members of his cabinet ) and Mečiar opponents ( led by the VPN chairman Fedor Gál ).

The party has been a member of the Slovak government three times: twice as the leading partner with Mečiar as Prime Minister ( 1992 – 4, 1994 – 8 ) and from 2006-2010 as the junior partner under Robert Fico of Direction – Social Democracy.

Mečiar remained the leader ( in opposition ) of the HZDS, which continued to receive the support of 20 % or more of the population during the first Dzurinda government.

Mečiar was elected HZDS chairman in June 1991.

After eight members of the parliament left the HZDS in March 1993, Mečiar lost his parliamentary majority.

Mečiar and HZDS narrowly finished first in the 1998 elections, with 27 % of the vote.

In 2000, Mečiar ‘ s HZDS was renamed " People's Party-Movement for a Democratic Slovakia ".

In 2006 Parliamentary election in Slovakia, HZDS suffered the worst election result in its history ( 8. 79 %), leading Mečiar to request an examination of the election results.

While HZDS became part of Robert Fico's coalition, Mečiar himself was not named to cabinet.

Called ' Movement for a Democratic Slovakia ' ( HZDS ), it was led by Vladimír Mečiar, who had been deposed as Slovak Prime Minister a month earlier, and composed mostly of the VPN's cabinet members.

In 1992 Gašparovič joined the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia ( HZDS, Hnutie za demokratické Slovensko ), led by the controversial Vladimír Mečiar.

The period of the HZDS rule was among other things marked by persistent animosity between the HZDS-led government and the country's President Michal Kováč, a vocal opponent of the Mečiar regime.

* 1942 – Vladimír Mečiar, Slovak politician, 1st Prime Minister of Slovakia

Vladimír Mečiar ( born 26 July 1942 ) is a former Slovak politician who served three times as Prime Minister of Slovakia serving from 1990 to 1991, from 1992 to 1994, and from 1994 to 1998.

Mečiar led Slovakia to disengagement from the Czech Republic in January 1993 and was one of the leading presidential candidates in Slovakia in 1999 and 2004.

On 11 January 1990, when the VPN was looking for professionals to participate in the government of Slovakia, Mečiar was appointed the new Minister of the Interior and Environment of Slovakia on a recommendation of Alexander Dubček, who was impressed by Mečiar ‘ s thorough knowledge in all relevant fields.

At the same time Mečiar was at permanent " war " with the then-President of Slovakia, Michal Kováč.

As a result, Slovakia under his rule became partially isolated from the West and the pace of EU and NATO accession negotiations was much slower than in the case of neighboring countries, although Mečiar supported both EU and NATO membership for his country and submitted Slovakia's applications to both organisations.

Afterwards, Mečiar was one of the two leading candidates for the first direct election of the president of Slovakia in 1999, but he was defeated by Rudolf Schuster.

Mečiar was heavily favoured to win the 2002 election, even though it was thought that if he became prime minister again, it would end any chance of Slovakia getting into the EU.

After the Dzurinda led-coalition defeated the autocratic Prime Minister Vladimír Mečiar, Dzurinda became unpopular with the People's Party-Movement for a Democratic Slovakia ( ĽS-HZDS ) electorate.

Founded in 1991, its leader is Vladimír Mečiar, who, as Prime Minister, led Slovakia through the Velvet Divorce.

The attitude of Matica and its members during the social and political struggles in Slovakia around 1989 – 1995 was that it supported the ultra-conservative Languages Act, forcing the SNR to sign into law the VPN-version of the Languages Act and Matica also supported the Declaration of Independence of the Slovak Republic, both in 1992 ( under Vladimír Mečiar Slovakia declared independence without anyone as much as asking the Slovak public ).

Dzurinda was appointed Slovakia's prime minister for the first time in October 1998, leading five previous opposition parties united as the Slovak Democratic Coalition ( SDK ) and defeating the government of Vladimír Mečiar at the polls.

Although former Prime Minister Vladimír Mečiar received the most votes in the first round, he was defeated by Ivan Gašparovič in the run-off.

He was a candidate in the presidential election held on 3 April 2004, and although pre-election polls had suggested he would come in first, he actually came in third behind former prime minister Vladimír Mečiar and Ivan Gašparovič, thus preventing him from contesting the run-off.

Following the general election in 1994 won by Vladimír Mečiar, he returned to the opposition benches in the parliament.

Marián Andel, Jozef Prokeš, Jaroslav Paška and Ľudovít Černák were in the second Mečiar government ( 1992 – 1994 ), Ján Sitek and Eva Slavkovská in the third Mečiar government ( 1994 – 1998 ) and other deputies were in the government of Robert Fico from 2006 – 2010 ( see below ).

The early elections were necessary after the Vladimír Mečiar 1992 government had been recalled in March 1994 by the National Council and a new temporary government under Jozef Moravčík had been created at the same time.

He soon became a strong opponent of Prime Minister Vladimír Mečiar and by giving a critical presidential address to parliament in March 1994, Kováč significantly contributed to the deposition of the then Mečiar government and the creation of the Moravčík government ( which only lasted until the next parliamentary election in the autumn of 1994 ).

However, after Kovač's term expired in March 1998 the Slovak parliament was unable to elect a successor, so Mečiar also temporarily assumed the role of acting president.

The newspaper was oriented strongly against governments under Vladimír Mečiar ( an attitude that intensified after January 1993 ) and in favour of other governments.

He received only 7. 4 % of the vote, with three other candidates ( Ivan Gašparovič, Vladimír Mečiar and Eduard Kukan ) receiving more than that.