Ján Figeľ, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Age, Net Worth, Biography

How to Pronounce Ján Figeľ
Slovak Minister of Transport, member of Slovak National Council and politician

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Ján Figel (born 20 January 1960 in Caklov, Slovakia) is a Special Envoy for Promotion of Freedom of Religion outside the EU appointed by the president of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker on 6 May 2016.
As a Special Envoy, he serves as a Special Adviser to the Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development, Neven Mimica.
This mandate was renewed by the European Commission until 5 May 2019.Figel was European Commissioner for Education, Training & Culture from 2004 to 2009.
His area of responsibility also covered sport, youth, and relations with civil society.
He was also Minister of Transport and the First Deputy-Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic from 2010 to 2012. Figel was chairman of the Christian Democratic Movement (KDH) from 19 September 2009 until 15 March 2016, when he resigned as party leader following unsuccessful general elections when KDH took just 4.96 percent of the vote and, as a result, Christian Democrats did not win any seats in the parliament for the first time since they were established in 1990 and paid the price for not passing the baton to a new generation.
Furthermore, Figel created a controversy with an electoral campaign focusing on anti immigration and nationalist rhetoric with a slogan about "white Slovakia".
In May 2019, he ran for European Parliament elections but, receiving only 23792 preferential votes, he was not elected.

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