Education
Comenius University in Bratislava.
Comenius University in Bratislava.
After a disagreement with Prime Minister Mikuláš Dzurinda, he led a group of MPs to form the Free Forum in January 2004. In May 2010, he returned to the Christian Democratic Movement.
He surprisingly lost the party"s leadership election two months later to Zuzana Martináková, and he left in October 2004 to form Mission 21 – New Christian Democracy.
A founding member of the Christian Democratic Movement (KDH) in 1990, Šimko left to co-found the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union in 2000.