The 8th Government of Slovenia led by Prime Minister

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 2 ...

was announced on 3 December 2004. The government was formed after the

2004 Slovenian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Slovenia on Sunday, 3 October 2004 to elect the 90 deputies of the National Assembly. A total of 1,390 male and female candidates ran in the election, organized into 155 lists. The lists were compiled both by o ...

. It was the first government of Janez Janša, and third centre-right government in the history of the

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won on the elections 29% of the votes and so became the strongest parliamentary party in the

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. The party nominated

as the candidate for the mandatary, who was confirmed by the president

Janez Drnovšek Janez Drnovšek (; 17 May 1950 – 23 February 2008) was a Slovenian liberal politician, President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia (1989–1990), Prime Minister of Slovenia (1992–2002, with a short break in 2000) and President of Slovenia (200 ...

. It was one of the most stable governments of Slovenia, which ruled in the times of the greatest economical boom. In 2004–2006, the economy grew on average by nearly 5% a year in Slovenia; in 2007, it expanded by almost 7%. The growth surge was fuelled by debt, particularly among firms, and especially in construction. The price for a boom that veered out of control has been paid in years from 2009 onwards. Cabinet members came from four parties of the new coalition and

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candidates: *

(SDS) - 6 Ministers - 6 Ministers + 1 Minister without portfolio at the end of the term *

New Slovenia New Slovenia – Christian Democrats ( sl, Nova Slovenija – Krščanski demokrati, NSi) is a Christian-democratic, conservative political party in Slovenia. Since 2018, it is led by Matej Tonin. The party was formed on 4 August 2000 following ...

(NSi) - 4 Minister *

Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia The Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia ( sl, Demokratična stranka upokojencev Slovenije, also known by the acronym DeSUS) is a political party in Slovenia led by Ljubo Jasnič. The party claims broadly liberal values with a strong focus ...

(DeSUS) - 1 Minister * SLS - 2 Ministers + 1 Minister without portfolio *3

Ministers - 2 Independent Ministerst at the end of the term

Changes from the preceding cabinet

The number of ministries was raised from 16 in the Rop cabinet to 17. It was the third government led by the centre-right party. *

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was divided on to two ministries:

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and

. The first covered the fields of higher and academic education and the second the fields of primary and secondary education. * Ministry of Legislation was renamed to

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List of ministers and portfolios

History

*The first interpelation was given to Minister of Culture

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in October 2006, which was later refused by

on 30 of November 2006. *The first change was made on 27 March 2006 when Jože Damjan was replaced with at the time

candidate Andrej Horvat. *The next change to follow was the replacement of

Janez Drobnič Janez may refer to: People: * Janez (given name), a Slovene given name * Janež, a Slovene surname In music: *Janez Detd., a Belgian rock band May also refer to a semi-pejorative term used in the Croatian North and beyond for Slovenes The S ...

, minister of Minister of Social Affairs. The prime minister Janša proposed his dismissal because statements about how to rise fertility in country. Many were also discontented with his work. Marjeta Cotman replaced him on the position. The change of Janez Drobnič trigged a mini coalition crisis as there were many ministers people and Janša were displeased with, among them also

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(poor treatment with Roma minority in Slovenia),

Dimitrij Rupel Dimitrij Rupel (born 7 April 1946) is a Slovenian politician. Early life and education Rupel was born in Ljubljana, in what was then the PR Slovenia, into a bourgeois family of former anti-fascist political emigrants from the Julian March (his ...

(The Economist marked his diplomatic capabilities as "clumsy"),

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(incompetence and difficulties with communication with the media) and

who at the time recently "survived" interpelation. *The second interpelation was against the

Minister of Health A health minister is the member of a country's government typically responsible for protecting and promoting public health and providing welfare and other social security services. Some governments have separate ministers for mental health. Coun ...

Andrej Bručan Andrey, Andrej or Andrei (in Cyrillic script: Андрей, Андреј or Андрэй) is a form of Andreas/Ἀνδρέας in Slavic languages and Romanian. People with the name include: *Andrei of Polotsk ( – 1399), Lithuanian nobleman *An ...

that was filed by

Liberal Democracy of Slovenia Liberal Democracy of Slovenia ( sl, Liberalna demokracija Slovenije, LDS) is a social-liberal political party in Slovenia. Between 1992 and 2004 it was the largest (and ruling) party in the country. In the 2011 Slovenian parliamentary election, i ...

(LDS) on 11 October 2006. The minister underwent the interpelation and continued with his work. *On 30 October 2007 ministers

(health issues), Janez Božič and

resigned from their positions. Janša accepted their resignation and named new ministers. The new

became Zofija Mazej Kukovič, the new

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Radovan Žerjav and the new

Mojca Kucler Dolinar.

Composition at the end of the mandate

Former members

References

External links

Official website
of the

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Chronology of Slovenian cabinets
at vlada.si {{DEFAULTSORT:Cabinet of Janez Jansa 01 Jansa 01 2004 establishments in Slovenia 2008 disestablishments in Slovenia Cabinets established in 2004 Cabinets disestablished in 2008