Ruler · 1930 – 2016

Michal Kováč

Lived 1930 – 2016; politician. President of Slovakia (Slovakia), 1993 – 1998.

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Lived: 1930 – 2016; 86 years
In office: 5 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Slovakia
Left it: served out the term; the ruler's own article

President of Slovakia

Slovakia · the 1st of 9 dated reigns · 1993 – 2024

Michal Kováč1993 – 1998

Vladimír Mečiar1998

Ivan Gašparovič1998

Mikuláš Dzurinda1998 – 1999

5 after

left alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on recordthis entry

Reigned 1993 – 1998 · 5 years · came to it aged 63

Came to it: elected
Left it: served out the termread from the ruler's own article

Kováč was elected president by the National Council of Slovakia in February 1993 (because he was a candidate of the biggest parliamentary party—the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia) and inaugurated on 2 March 1993.

Kováč's term ended on 2 March 1998.

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