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List Of Slovenian Politicians
The following is a list of Slovenian politicians: {{compact ToC, side=yes, top=yes, num=yes A * Juro Adlešič *Fran Albreht B *Andrej Bajuk * Engelbert Besednjak *Janez Bleiweis *Katja Boh *József Borovnyák *France Bučar C *Ivan Cankar D * Stane Dolanc E *Andrej Einspieler *Josip Ferfolja G *Andrej Gosar H *Ivan Hribar J * Zoran Janković *Janez Janša * Iztok Jarc *Zmago Jelinčič Plemeniti *Romana Jordan Cizelj * Aurelio Juri K * Franc Kangler *Edvard Kardelj * Stane Kavčič *Franci Kek * Boris Kidrič * Roman Kirn * József Klekl *Anton Korošec * Sergej Kraigher *Janez Evangelist Krek *Miha Krek *Etbin Kristan *Milan Kučan L * Karel Lavrič *Dragotin Lončar M *Matija Majar * Drago Marušič *Tomaž Marušič N *Marko Natlačen * Anton Novačan * Ljudmila Novak P *Borut Pahor *Lojze Peterle *Janez Podobnik * Janez Potočnik *Albin Prepeluh * Janko Prunk *Jože Pučnik R *Ciril Ribičič * Mitja Ribičič *Anton Rop *Dimitrij R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slovenia
Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, and the Adriatic Sea to the southwest. Slovenia is mostly mountainous and forested, covers , and has a population of 2.1 million (2,108,708 people). Slovenes constitute over 80% of the country's population. Slovene, a South Slavic language, is the official language. Slovenia has a predominantly temperate continental climate, with the exception of the Slovene Littoral and the Julian Alps. A sub-mediterranean climate reaches to the northern extensions of the Dinaric Alps that traverse the country in a northwest–southeast direction. The Julian Alps in the northwest have an alpine climate. Toward the northeastern Pannonian Basin, a continental climate is more pronounced. Ljubljana, the capital and largest city of Slovenia, is geogr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janez Janša
Ivan Janša (; born 17 September 1958), baptized and best known as Janez Janša (), is a Slovenian politician who served three times as a prime minister of Slovenia, a position he had held from 2004 to 2008, from 2012 to 2013, and from 2020 to 2022. Since 1993, Janša has led the Slovenian Democratic Party, which has emerged as the pre-eminent Slovenian conservative party. Janša lost his fourth bid for prime minister in April 2022, his party defeated by the Freedom Movement party. Janša served as Minister of Defence from 1990 to 1994, a post he had also held during the Slovenian War of Independence. Janša served as prime minister from 2004 to 2008, and again became prime minister in 2012, following an early election in December 2011. On 27 February 2013, Janša's second government was ousted in a vote of non-confidence. In June 2013, Janša was sentenced to two years in prison on corruption charges. The ruling was confirmed by Slovenia's higher court in April 2014, but after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergej Kraigher
Sergej Kraigher (30 May 1914 – 17 January 2001) was a Yugoslav communist politician from Slovenia who served as the President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia from 1981 to 1982. During World War II, he fought in the Yugoslav Resistance Movement. Biography Kraigher was born in Postojna, Austria-Hungary, modern-day Slovenia. His uncle, Jurij Kraigher was a prominent American civil and war pilot. His other uncle, Alojz Kraigher, was a prominent writer and left wing activist, while his cousin Boris also became an influential communist politician. Kraigher rose through the ranks of the Communist Party of Slovenia in the 1940s. He fought in the Partisan resistance. Kraigher became chairman of the People's Assembly of Slovenia in 1967 and held that position until 1974, after which he served as President of the Presidency of Slovenia from 1974 until 1979. Following the death of Edvard Kardelj, Kraigher became the Slovenian member of the collective Presidency of Yugoslavia a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anton Korošec
Anton Korošec (, ; 12 May 1872 – 14 December 1940) was a Yugoslav politician, a prominent member of the conservative People's Party, a Roman Catholic priest and a noted orator. Early life Korošec was born in Biserjane (then Duchy of Styria, Austria-Hungary, now part of Slovenia) and went to school in Ptuj and in Maribor. He studied theology and was ordained as a priest in 1895. He completed his education with a doctorate in theology from the University of Graz in 1905. He was friends with Janez Evangelist Krek and adopted his political views. Political career In 1907, Korošec was elected to the Reichsrat as a member of the Slovenian People's Party, where, as president of the Yugoslav Club, he read out the May Declaration, which called for all South Slavs to be unified in one state unit within the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Following the break-up of Austria-Hungary, the National Council of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, of which Korošec was the president, declared the cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
József Klekl (politician)
József Klekl ( sl, Jožef Klekl) (October 13, 1874 – May 30, 1948) was a Slovene Roman Catholic priest from Prekmurje and politician in Hungary, writer, governor of the Slovene People's Party ''(Slovenska lüdska stranka),'' later a delegate in Belgrade. Klekl was an active proponent of the independence of the Slovene March in Hungary ''(Slovenska krajina),'' and for some time fusion with the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs. Early life Klekl born in Prekmurje, in Krajna, in the Vas County of the Kingdom of Hungary. The writer József Klekl (1879–1936), his cousin, was also born here. Because he was older, he is known as ''Jožef Klekl Stari'' ('József Klekl Sr.') in Slovenian. His parents, István Klekl and Teréz Sálmán, were farmers. The Klekl family was of German descent. His grandfather Anton Klekl was born in Kellerdorf, near Radkersburg, Austria. On July 11, 1897, Klekl became a priest and chaplain to Ferenc Ivanóczy in Tišina. At the time, Ivanóczy wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Kirn
Roman Kirn was the ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia to the United States, Mexico and The Netherlands. He was appointed Ambassador of Slovenia to the United States of America on May 26, 2009 and to the United Mexican States on January 20, 2011. From 22 July 2002 until December 2006, he was permanent Representative (or ambassador) of Slovenia to the United Nations. Prior to that appointment, at Slovenia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs ''Foreign Affairs'' is an American magazine of international relations and U.S. foreign policy published by the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, membership organization and think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and ..., he served as State Undersecretary and Head of the Multilateral Relations Department. He was Ambassador of Slovenia to the Kingdom of The Netherlands from 16 October 2013 until June 2017. References * CURRICULUM VITAE Mr. Roman Kirn , ''The Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Washington''. URL las ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Kidrič
Boris Kidrič (10 April 1912 – 11 April 1953) was a Slovene politician and revolutionary who was one of the chief organizers of the Slovene Partisans, the Slovene resistance against occupation by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy after Operation Barbarossa in June 1941. He became the de facto leader of the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People. As such, he had a crucial role in the anti-Fascist liberation struggle in Slovenia between 1941 and 1945. After World War II he was, together with Edvard Kardelj, a leading Slovenian politician in communist Yugoslavia. Life Kidrič was born in Vienna, then capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, as the son of the prominent Slovene liberal literary critic France Kidrič. In 1953, he died of leukemia in Belgrade. Political career In the early 1930s, Kidrič was drafted by the communist publicist Vlado Kozak to join the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. He soon rose to high political posts in the Drava Banovina and was among the founders ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franci Kek
Franci Kek (born 25 January 1964) is a Slovenian actor. He was elected as the head of the Active Slovenia party on its founding on 8 May 2004. Kek is the organizer of Rock Otočec, a large annual rock festival. Kek and Saša Đukić wrote, produced and starred in the 2002 film '' Na svoji Vesni''. They have been creating films together since 1995. He has also been a city councilor in Novo Mesto Novo Mesto (; sl, Novo mesto; also known by other alternative names) is a city on a bend of the Krka River in the City Municipality of Novo Mesto in southeastern Slovenia, close to the border with Croatia. The town is traditionally considered t .... References Living people 1964 births Active Slovenia politicians People from Novo Mesto Zares politicians {{Slovenia-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stane Kavčič
Stane Kavčič (30 October 1919 – 27 March 1987) was a Slovenian communist politician within the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in 1941 and participated in the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation. Within the Socialist Republic of Slovenia, he was vice president of the presidium of the People's Assembly (1949–1950), vice president (1951–1956) and president (1967–1972) of the executive council, the latter post being the equivalent of prime minister. Economic reform had been initiated in 1965, and while in office, he continued liberal policies of regional development, expansion of the tertiary sector of the economy, an increase in exports and openness toward the West. Scandals that marked his administration included the 1968 Ciril Žebot scandal, the 1969 Road Scandal and the 1971 scandal of the 25 delegates. In autumn 1971, party conservatives began organizing a purge of liberals from Slovenia's institutions. Kavči ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edvard Kardelj
Edvard Kardelj (; 27 January 1910 – 10 February 1979), also known by the pseudonyms Bevc, Sperans and Krištof, was a Yugoslav politician and economist. He was one of the leading members of the Communist Party of Slovenia before World War II. During the war, Kardelj was one of the leaders of the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People and a Slovene Partisan, and after the war, he was a federal political leader in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and led the Yugoslav delegation in peace talks with Italy over the border dispute in the Julian March. He was the main creator of the Yugoslav system of workers' self-management. He was an economist and a full member of both the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. he played a major role and setting the foreign policy by designing the fundamental ideological basis for the Yugoslav policy of nonalignment in the 1950s and the 1960s. Early years Kardelj was born in Ljubljana. At ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franc Kangler
Franc Kangler (born 8 July 1965) is a Slovenian politician. He has served as the mayor of Maribor, the second largest town in the country. On 6 December 2012, due to protests, he stepped down from the position, and he left the office on 31 December 2012. Education and private life Kangler was born in Maribor and attended elementary school in Duplek. He continued his education at the Secondary Police School in Tacen. After that he obtained a bachelor's degree in law and is currently completing university studies in law at the Faculty of Law at the University of Maribor. He is married and has a daughter. National politics career He was an employee of the Ministry of Interior of Slovenia. In 1995, he became secretary of the Municipality of Duplek. In 1996, he was elected as a deputy to the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia for the first time. Currently he is serving his third term of office in that capacity. Franc Kangler has been a member of the national Commission f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aurelio Juri
Aurelio Juri (born 27 July 1949) is a Slovenian politician and journalist of Italian ethnic origin. Between 2008 and 2009, he served as Member of the European Parliament. He was an influential member of the Social Democrats, before he left the party in 2009. Juri was born in an Italian-speaking family of Friulian descent in Pula, Croatia, then part of Yugoslavia. He spent his childhood in the Slovenian coastal town of Koper, where he started his political career in the League of Communists of Slovenia. In 1978, he became a member of the Town Council. A staunch supporter of the reformist wing of the party led by Milan Kučan, became a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Slovenia in 1989, one year before the democratic changes in Slovenia. Between 1986 and 1990, he also served as chairman of the autonomous organization of the Italian Community of Koper. In 1994, he became mayor of Koper, but resigned in 1996, after being elected to the Slovenian National As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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