František Šebej
Member of the National Council
In office
2010 – 15 March 2018
In office
1998–2002
Member of the House of the Nation of the Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia
In office
7 June 1990 – 4 June 1992
Personal details
Born (1947-05-11) 11 May 1947
Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
Political partyMost–Híd (since 2010)

František Šebej (born 11 May 1947) is a Slovak politician and academic. He was member of the National Council of Slovakia between 1998 and 2002 and once more from 2010 until 2018. Between 1990 and 1992 he was member of the House of the Nation of the Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia.

Career

Šebej was born on 11 May 1947 in Bratislava.[1][2] He worked at the Comenius University in Bratislava as a researcher at the Institute of Human Bioclimathology and Institute of Experimental psychology between 1971 and 1980.

Šebej was a member of the House of Nations of the Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia between 7 June 1990 and 4 June 1992. He served first for the Public Against Violence (VPN) party from 26 September 1990 until 12 November 1991. Then for a combination of the VPN and the Civic Democratic Union between 3 December 1991 and 10 March 1992 and finally solely for the Civic Democratic Union until the end of his term.[3][4] In 1995 he criticized the government of Slovak Prime Minister Vladimír Mečiar, saying the state was becoming more and more authoritarian.[5]

Between 1998 and 2002 Šebej was member of the National Council of Slovakia.[6] In 2010 he again became member of the National Council, being elected for Most–Híd in the 2010 Slovak parliamentary election.[6] In the parliamentary elections of 2012 he was elected once again for Most–Híd. As of 2015 he chaired the Foreign Affairs committee in the National Council, he has done so since 2010.[1]

In April 2014, during the crisis in Ukraine he disagreed with Slovak government policy on defence of Slovakia. He called for increased security efforts, including the possibility of stationing NATO troops in the country.[7] On 15 March 2018 Šebej resigned from his seat in the National Council.[8]

Šebej is member of the board of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association.[9]

Honors

References

  1. 1 2 "PhDr. František Šebej, CSc" (in Slovak). National Council of Slovakia. Archived from the original on 9 July 2017. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  2. ↑ "Životopis" (in Slovak). ferosebej.sk. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  3. ↑ "PhDr. František Šebej, CSc" (in Czech). Parliament of the Czech Republic. Archived from the original on 13 April 2020.
  4. ↑ Shari J. Cohen (1 November 1999). Politics without a Past: The Absence of History in Postcommunist Nationalism. Duke University Press. pp. 184–. ISBN 0-8223-9067-1.
  5. ↑ Adam Zwass (1999). Incomplete Revolutions: The Successes and Failures of Capitalist Transition Strategies in Post-communist Economies. M.E. Sharpe. pp. 89–. ISBN 978-0-7656-0370-8.
  6. 1 2 "1989 The year of changes". Svensk-Polska Samfundet. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
  7. ↑ "Slovakia's Role in Ukraine Crisis". The Daily SK. 25 April 2014. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
  8. ↑ "Šebej z Mosta-Híd sa vzdal poslaneckého mandátu" (in Slovak). SME. 15 March 2018. Archived from the original on 5 November 2018.
  9. ↑ "Board of Directors SFPA". Slovak Foreign Policy Association. Archived from the original on 11 January 2015. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
  10. ↑ "Sebej First Slovak to Be Presented with Japan's Order of Rising Sun". NewsNow. 14 February 2018. Archived from the original on 4 September 2019.
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