Slovakia`s first president Michal Kovac dies at 86

  06 October 2016    Read: 1254
Slovakia`s first president Michal Kovac dies at 86
Slovakia`s first President Michal Kovac died late Wednesday, Slovak news agency TASR reported. He was 86.
Kovac, who had been in the intensive care unit of a hospital here, died of heart failure, the agency said.

He had several health problems brought on by Parkinson`s disease.

Kovac was the first president of Slovak Republic after it became an independent state in 1993 following the dissolution of Czechoslovakia. He held office until March 1998.

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