Early Life and Education
Fico was born in 1964, in the town of Topoľčany in the southwestern Nitra Region. His father was a forklift operator and his mother worked in a shoe store. He has two siblings.
In 1982 he enrolled in the Law Faculty of the Comenius University in Bratislava, in what was then Czechoslovakia, graduating as juris doctor in 1986. He later worked for the Institute of State and Law of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. In 2002 he completed his postgraduate study, earning him the title of associate professor.
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