[1] In 1978 he earned his degree at the Law Faculty of Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia.

In 1989 he became the head of the Legal Department of the "Jednota SD" cooperative in Nitra.

He entered politics after November 1989 and he became engaged in the Christian Democratic Movement, a member of which he has remained to this day.

In the September 1998 election he ran for the Parliament for the Slovak Democratic Coalition.

He replaced Ján Čarnogurský, who had been the leader of the Christian Democratic Movement since its inception (i.e. for ten years).