Petra Krištúfková (born 8 April 1977 in

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) is a Slovak politician. She served as a

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of the National Council from 2016 to 2023.

Life

Krištúfková attended a Commerce Academy in Bratislava but did not graduate from high school due to becoming pregnant at the age of 17 with the mafia boss Róbert Dinič. She eventually did graduate high school in 2002. Following the killing of Dinič, Krištúfková was involved with other prominent mobsters Peter Havaši, Libor Jakšík and Juraj Ondrejčák. Due to the tendency of her romantic partners to die or become imprisoned in young age, Krištúfková became known as the "black widow of Slovak underworld". In 2019, Krištúfková graduated in

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at the University of Central Europe. Her final thesis was later found to be entirely

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Political career

In 2015, Krištúfková joined the new party We are family, founded by the businessman

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, her former romantic partner and father of her younger daughter. The following year, in

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Krištúfková got elected to the National Council. As an MP she served in the committee for overseeing military intelligence, nonetheless in 2018 she was removed from the post due to her connections to organized crime. Krištúfková was returned to the National Council in the

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. After the election, she was nominated for the newly created post of Government representative for Family by the Labor Minister

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. Her nomination was criticized by the Slovak

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who pointed out her past mafia connections, lack of education ane experience. Krištúfková resigned the post after only four days when it became known that she spent her 2009 summer holiday on the yacht of the convinced criminal

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despite claiming she had never met him.

References

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