Dragutin Mate (born 2 May 1963) is a

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, an ...

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and

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of Croat origins. He was a member of the

Slovenian Democratic Party The Slovenian Democratic Party ( sl, Slovenska demokratska stranka, SDS), formerly the Social Democratic Party of Slovenia ( sl, Socialdemokratska stranka Slovenije, SDSS), is a conservative political party in Slovenia. It has been described as ...

(2008-2016). Between 2004 and 2008 he served as

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in the

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government led by

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and between 2011 and 2014, he was a deputy in the

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Biography

Mate was born in

Čakovec Čakovec (; hu, Csáktornya; la, Aquama; german: Tschakathurn) is a city in northern Croatia, located around north of Zagreb, the Croatian capital. Čakovec is both the county seat and the largest city of Međimurje County, the northernmost, s ...

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, (then part of the

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) to Croatian parents. He spent his childhood in the city of

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in eastern Slovenia, where his parents moved for professional reasons. He graduated from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the

University of Ljubljana The University of Ljubljana ( sl, Univerza v Ljubljani, , la, Universitas Labacensis), often referred to as UL, is the oldest and largest university in Slovenia. It has approximately 39,000 enrolled students. History Beginnings Although certain ...

. In 1989 he started working as a high school teacher at the

Poljane Grammar School The Poljane Upper Secondary School () is located in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. It is a coeducational nondenominational state secondary general education school for students aged between 15 and 19. It prepares them for university, which the ...

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. In 1990, after the victory of the

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in the first free elections in Slovenia, he got employed at the Slovenian Ministry of Defence. He became head of the department of Civil Protection at the ministry, later moving to the

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section. He participated in the

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of June 1991. In 1992, he became the main adviser for international cooperation in the Defence Minister's Office. After 1994, he switched to the

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. Between 1996 and 2000, he served as the Slovenian

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. Between 2000 and 2004 he resumed work at the Ministry of Defence. In 2004 he was appointed as Minister of Interior in the cabinet of

. After the victory of the left-wing coalition led by

Borut Pahor Borut Pahor (; born 2 November 1963) is a Slovenian politician who served as President of Slovenia from 2012 to 2022. He previously served as Prime Minister of Slovenia from November 2008 to February 2012. A longtime member and former presid ...

in the 2008 parliamentary elections, he was replaced by

Katarina Kresal Katarina Kresal (born 28 January 1973) is a Slovenian politician. She was the Minister of the Interior in the government of Borut Pahor from 24 November 2008 till 19 August 2011. Biography Born in Ljubljana, Kresal studied law at the University o ...

. On 17 February he and two other members were excluded and replaced on the Executive Council (''Izvršni odbor'') of the SDS due to inactivity. On 21 February 2016 he resigned his membership in the SDS due to "decline of internal democracy" in the party.RTV SLO - Dragutin Mate zaradi "pešanja notranje demokracije v SDS-u" izstopil iz stranke
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Biography on the Ministry of defence webpageBiography on the webpage of the Slovenian GovernmentProfile in the magazine Mladina

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