Martin Fedor

Marin Fedor
Minister of Defence of Slovakia
In office February 1, 2006 – July 4, 2006
Preceded by	Juraj Liška
Succeeded by	František Kašický
Personal details
Born	March 4, 1974 Považská Bystrica, Slovakia
Political party	Slovak Democratic and Christian Union - Democratic Party (2001–2014) #Network (2015–2016) Most–Híd (2016–present)

Martin Fedor is a member of Slovak National Council and he 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 privately held organizations. Martin Fedor is married.

Political career

Martin Fedor joined the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union in 2001 and he 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 Mr. 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 project #Network. After the failure to obtain expected 10-15% in 2016 Slovak parliamentary elections (actually only 5,6%) and secret talks of Procházka with Robert Fico from SMER-SD to join the coalition government, the #Network started to fall apart and in few months, all the MPs either became independent (later formed new party SPOLU) or joined other coalition party, Most-Híd. Fedor has joined Most-Híd in 2016 and has been its member ever since.

Political party membership

• 2001 - 2014 - Slovak Democratic and Christian Union
• 2001 - 2014 - Slovak Democratic and Christian Union youth association - New Generation
• 2015 - 2016 - #Network
• 2016 - present - Most–Híd

External links

• https://web.archive.org/web/20061208065233/http://www.government.gov.sk/english/minister_mo.html
• Government.gov.sk at the Wayback Machine (archived December 8, 2006)