Mária Sabolová

Mária Sabolová was born on 20 September 1956 in Prešov. She graduated in electrical engineering at the Technical University of Košice in 1980.^[1]

Sabolová was among the founding members of the Christian Democratic Movement (KDH) in 1990. In 1994 she was elected an MP of the National Council, a post she held for 17 years.^[2] As an MP, she was mainly engaged in healthcare topics. Notably, she long fought for the right of patients to see specialists without a referral from general practitioners.^[3] In 2002 she was offered a post in the government, which she turned down opting to focus on her parliamentary work.^[4] Following the failure of KDH to pass the representation threshold in the 2012 Slovak parliamentary election, Sabolová retired from politics.^[5]