Stanislav Fořt (born 29 August 1977) is a Slovak politician who served as a

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of the National Council in 2010 to 2012.

Life and education

Fořt was born in

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. He studied accounting at the

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, graduating in 2000. Additionally, he study law at the

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, graduating in 2009.

Political career

During 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 ...

, Fořt ran on the list of the

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party, which he co-founded, and gained a seat. In 2011, he became the first male Slovak politician to publicly come out as gay. In an interview with

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, he stated he hoped his coming out would help other LGBT people to feel more comfortable in Slovakia. Fořt failed to retain his seat in the

2012 Slovak parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Slovakia on 10 March 2012 to elect the 150 members of the National Council. The elections followed the fall of Prime Minister Iveta Radičová's Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party-led ...

and subsequently announced his retirement from politics. Nonetheless, he unsuccessfully ran again in the

2016 Slovak parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Slovakia on 5 March 2016 to elect the 150 members of the National Council. The ruling left-wing populist Direction – Social Democracy (Smer) party remained the strongest party, but lost its majority. The ...

References

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