The era of Mikulas Dzurinda (Ivan Mikloš)
In the last lecture we analysed the era of Vladimír Mečiar and ended with a description of the joyless situation in which he left the country. Slovakia was internationally isolated, excluded from integration into the EU, NATO, OECD, considered a black hole in Europe, with high corruption, no foreign investment, and growing macro and microeconomic imbalances and distortions. In this situation, a political change took place in autumn 1998. Although Mečiar’s HZDS won the elections, it was unable to form a government. This was taken over by a broad coalition of parties ranging from the centre-right, to the Greens, to the transformed communists – the Party of the Democratic Left. Formally there were four parties in the coalition, but two of them were formed from several parties, so that in reality it was a coalition of nine parties.
Comment: the districts most affected by the recovery policy of the two governments of Mikuláš Dzurinda have not recovered demographically from the intervention even after 20 years.
Source idnes.cz/rabovani-se-obraci-proti-vlade
Source opytajsauctovnika.sk/historia-vyvoj-priemernej-mzdy/