What is Rudolf Schuster?
{{Infobox President |name = Rudolf Schuster |image = Rudolf Schuster 2011.jpg |office = [[List of Presidents of Slovakia|2nd]] [[President of Slovakia]] |term_start = 15 June 1999 |term_end = 15 June 2004 |primeminister = [[Mikuláš Dzurinda]] |predecessor = [[Michal Kováč]] |successor = [[Ivan Gašparovič]] |office2 = Member of the [[National Council of the Slovak Republic|National Council]] |term_start2 = 30 October 1998 |term_end2 = 15 June 1999 |predecessor2 = |successor2 = |office3 = Mayor of [[Košice]] |term_start3 = 1994 |term_end3 = 15 June 1999 |predecessor3 = |successor3 = |order4 = [[List of leaders of Slovak parliaments|Speaker of the National Council]] |term_start4 = 30 November 1989 |term_end4 = 26 June 1990 |predecessor4 = [[Viliam Šalgovič]] |successor4 = [[František Mikloško]] |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1934|1|4|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Košice]], [[Czechoslovakia]] <small>(now [[Slovakia]])</small> |death_date = |death_place = |party = [[Independent (politician)|Independent]] <small>(1999–present)</small> |otherparty = [[Communist Party of Slovakia (1939)|Communist Party]] <small>(1964–1990)</small><br>[[Party of Civic Understanding]] <small>(1998–1999)</small> |spouse = Irena Schusterová Trojáková<small>(Died 2008)</small> |signature = Signature of Rudolf Schuster.png }} '''Rudolf Schuster''' (born 4 January 1934) is a Slovakian politician. He was the [[President of Slovakia]] from 1999 to 2004. He was elected on 29 May 1999. In the April 2004 election, he lost to [[Ivan Gašparovič]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://spectator.sme.sk/c/20022778/schuster-gone-for-good.html|title=Schuster gone for good?|first=Petit Press|last=a.s|date=21 June 2004|website=spectator.sme.sk}}</ref> He received only 7.4% of the vote.<ref>{{cite book|title=Profiles of People in Power: the world's government leaders |url=https://archive.org/details/profilesofpeople0001east |author= Roger East, Richard T