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Election Profile:

Country: Slovakia Official Name: Slovak Republic Election Type: Presidential First Round: March 21, 2009 Second Round: April 4, 2009 Source for election date

At stake in this election:

• The office of President of Slovakia

Description of government structure:

• Chief of State: President Ivan GASPAROVIC
• Head of Government: Prime Minister Robert FICO
• Assembly: Slovakia has a unicameral National Council of the Slovak Republic (Narodna Rada Slovenskej Republiky) with 150 seats.

Description of electoral system:

• The President is elected by direct popular vote to serve a 5-year term.
• In the National Council of the Slovak Republic (Narodna Rada Slovenskej Republiky) 150 members are elected by proportional representation.

Main Candidates in the Second Round of the Presidential race:

• Ivan GAŠPAROVIC
  Alliance: Direction - Social Democracy, and Slovak National Party / Smer – sociálna demokracia, Slovenská národná (Smer-SNS)
• Iveta RADIČOVÁ
  Party: Slovak Democratic and Christian Union - Democratic Party / Slovenská demokratická a kresťanská unia (SDKU-DS)

Main Candidates in the First Round of the Presidential race:

• Ivan GAŠPAROVIC*
  Alliance: Direction - Social Democracy, and Slovak National Party / Smer – sociálna demokracia, Slovenská národná (Smer-SNS)
• Iveta RADIČOVÁ**
  Party: Slovak Democratic and Christian Union - Democratic Party / Slovenská demokratická a kresťanská únia (SDKU-DS)
• František MIKLOŠKO
  Party: Conservative Democrats of Slovakia / Konzervatívni demokrati Slovenska (KDS)
• Zuzana MARTINÁKOVÁ
  Party: Free Forum / Slobodné fórum
• Milan MELNIK*****
  Independent(s): N/A
• Milan SIDOR******
  Independent(s): N/A
• Dagmar BALLOVA
  Independent(s): N/A

* Ivan GASPAROVIC is the incumbent president, representing an alliance of parties in the 2009 election.
** Iveta RADICOVA is also supported by the Party of the Hungarian Coalition (SMK), Christian Democratic Movement (KDH), and the Civic Conservative Party (OKS).
***** Though running as an independent, Milan MELNIK is supported by the party Movement for Democratic Slovakia (HZDS).
****** Though running as an independent candidate, Milan SIDOR is supported by the Communist Party of Slovakia (KSS).

Last Presidential election:

• The incumbent candidate Ivan GASPAROVIC won the last presidential election on April 3, 2004.

Population and number of registered voters:

• Population: 5,463,046 (July 2008 est.)
• Registered Voters: 4,339,331 (March 2009 )

Last Updated on 02/04/2010