Milan Urbáni (21 August 1944 – 17 June 2024) was a Slovak physician and politician. From 2002 to 2010, he served as an MP of the

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Biography

Milan Urbáni was born on 21 August 1944 in the village of Ratkovská Zdychava in the

Rimavská Sobota Rimavská Sobota (; , ) is a town in southern Slovakia, in the Banská Bystrica Region, on the Rimava river. It has approximately 24,000 inhabitants. The town is a historical capital of Gömör és Kishont County (from 1850 to 1922). Geography ...

district. He studied medicine at the

Pavol Jozef Šafárik University Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice ( Slovak ''Univerzita Pavla Jozefa Šafárika v Košiciach'') is a university located in Košice, Slovakia. It was founded in 1959 and is organized into five faculties. The university is named after P ...

, graduating in 1967. Following his graduation he practiced as a gynecologist in

Banská Bystrica Banská Bystrica (, also known by other #Etymology, alternative names) is a city in central Slovakia, located on the Hron River in a long and wide valley encircled by the mountain chains of the Low Tatras, the Greater Fatra, Veľká Fatra, and t ...

. In the 1970s and 1980s, he practiced medicine in Zambia and Libya. In 1991, he returned to Banská Bystrica, where he practiced until his death. In the

2002 Slovak parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Slovakia on 20 and 21 September 2002.Dieter Nohlen, Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1747 The People's Party – Movement for a Democratic Slovakia, Movement for a Democ ...

, Urbáni won a seat in the National Council of the electoral list of the

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(HZDS). In 2009, Urbáni was implicated in a corruption scandal and subsequently expelled from HZDS. He served as an independent MP for the rest of his term, until the

2010 Slovak parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Slovakia on 12 June 2010. The elections were contested by eighteen parties, six of which passed the 5% threshold for sitting in parliament. Despite the incumbent Smer of Prime Minister Robert Fico winning a ...

. Urbáni ran in the

2017 Slovak regional elections Elections were held in Slovakia's 8 self-governing regions on 4 November 2017. In 2017, deputies of the Slovak National Council voted to extend the term of governors from 4 years to 5 years, and change from a 2-round election to only 1 round. Th ...

for the position of the Governor of the

Banská Bystrica Region The Banská Bystrica Region (, ; , ) is one of the eight regions of Slovakia. It is the largest of the eight regions by area, and has a lower population density than any other region. The Banská Bystrica Region was established in 1923; its bord ...

, but only received 1.21% of the vote.

Death

Urbáni died on 17 June 2024, at the age of 79.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Urbani, Milan 1944 births 2024 deaths People's Party – Movement for a Democratic Slovakia politicians People from Rimavská Sobota District Members of the National Council (Slovakia) 2002-2006 Members of the National Council (Slovakia) 2006-2010