Ján Budaj

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Ján Budaj
Budaj in 2010
Minister of the Environment
In office
21 March 2020 – 15 May 2023
Prime MinisterIgor Matovič
Eduard Heger
Preceded byÁrpád Érsek
Succeeded byMilan Chrenko
Personal details
Born (1952-02-10) February 10, 1952 (age 73)
Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
Political partyVPN (1989–1991)
DEÚS (1994–1995)
DÚ (1995–2000)
Change from Below (2000–present)
Other political
affiliations		SDK (1998–2002)
OĽaNO (2016–2022)
Democrats (2023–present)

Ján Budaj (born 10 February 1952) is a Slovak politician and environmental activist. He is mostly known by his participation in the Velvet Revolution. He served as the Minister of Environment from 21 March 2020, in the cabinets of Igor Matovič and Eduard Heger until the dissolution of the Heger Cabinet on 15 May 2023.[1]

At the end of the 1970s, he founded the Temporary Society of Intensive Experience (DISP) with one of the first signatories of Charter 77 in Slovakia, Tomáš Petřivý, and the poet Vladimír Archleb. Within the framework of DISP, they created various events in the streets of Bratislava: happenings, unauthorized musical events, unofficial exhibitions, etc. In the 1980s, he worked as an ecological and civic activist, and was the compiler of the samizdat publication Bratislava/voice, published in 1987.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Nový minister životného prostredia J. Budaj si prevzal svoj rezort". Teraz.sk (in Slovak). 2020-03-21. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
  2. ^ "Bratislava/nahlas". 17. november 1989 (in Slovak). Retrieved 2022-11-13.


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