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The 12th Government of Slovenia, led by Prime Minister Miro Cerar, was announced on 18 September 2014. It was formed following the 2014 parliamentary election won by the centre-left
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; it was the third government formed over four years. At 51 years, Cerar was the second oldest Prime Minister of Slovenia since Independence, following Andrej Bajuk at 56 years. The cabinet had on the day of inauguration the highest number of women ministers representatives, as there were seven women ministers out of sixteen ministers in total. Cerar's cabinet was the highest educated cabinet to date, with six members with a doctorate. After the resignation of
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's
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, President Borut Pahor determined that the new elections would take place on 13 July 2014. With 34.49% Cerar won by the highest percentage on any parliamentary elections since Independence. It was decided not to cooperate with the Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS), as its leader Janez Janša was sentenced to two years imprisonment. On 28 July 2014 Cerar sent an outline of the coalition agreement to all other parties that attended the coalition talks. The first to agree was the president of Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia (DeSUS)
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, with whom Cerar gathered the necessary 45+ seats in Parliament. The next and last to join the coalition was
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with his Social Democrats (SD) party. The coalition agreement was signed on 3 September 2014. Cabinet members came from three parties of the new coalition: *
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(SMC): 8 ministers and 1 minister without portfolio * Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia (DeSUS): 3 ministers and 1 minister without portfolio * Social Democrats (SD): 3 ministers * Independent (Ind): 1 minister On the 14 March 2018, following the verdict of the
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to annul the referendum on the so-called "Second Railway track", Miro Cerar announced his resignation as Prime Minister.


Changes from the preceding cabinet

The number of ministries rose to 16, up from 13 in the preceding
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. Anja Kopač Mrak, Gorazd Žmavc,
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and
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have retained their position. * Ministry without Portfolio responsible for Development, Strategic Projects and Cohesion was added on the list of ministries without portfolio. With this change, the number of ministries without portfolio rose to two. * The position of the Vice president of the government was renewed after 14 years, when Marjan Podobnik was the last to hold it. Cerar named three vice presidents. * Ministry of Interior and Public Administration was divided on two ministries: Ministry of Interior and
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. * Minister of Infrastructure and Urban Planning was also divided on two departments: Ministry of Infrastructure and newly formed (already existent in some previous governments) Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning.


List of ministers and portfolios


History

* On 18 October 2014, the minister of economy, Jožef Petrovič, resigned and was the first minister to do so in the new government. He resigned just after one month in the position because of suspicion of wrongdoing when he worked at a company that was rigging prices when dealing with the state. As he stated he resigned "to enable the government to work in peace in these troubled times". The next candidate was supposed to be Gojko Koprivec but he backed down as a candidate when he got seriously ill just one day before the interrogation. After almost 2 months of vacancy, Slovenia got a new minister of economy. On December 4, 2014, the director of
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replaced the ex-minister of economy Jožef Petrovič. * On 10 October 2014 after
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failed as a new
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designate, Slovenia named a new candidate. Minister without Portfolio responsible for Development, Strategic Projects and Cohesion
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was sent to Brussels where she was confirmed as a new European Commissioner for Transport. With her appointment, the ministry became vacant. Cerar named
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as a new candidate. She was confirmed on 19 November 2014. * On 6 March 2014 Minister of Education, Science and Sport Stanka Setnikar Cankar resigned because of revelation of her high earnings from royalties (636,000 euros since April 2004) After some time (intern minister was Miro Cerar) Klavdija Markež was appointed to take her position, starting on 30 March 2015. * On 1 April 2015, after five days as minister, Klavdija Markež resigned amidst allegation of plagiarism regarding her MA thesis. * On 25 April 2016, after she had been summoned by the Prime Minister Cerar to resign due to the delay in the execution of governmental decisions and she had refused to do so, the minister of culture, Julijana Bizjak Mlakar, did resign. The reason was her disagreement with the Prime Minister regarding the management of the Idrija Mine, in regard to which she opined that the governmental decision was dictated by lobbies.


Current composition


Former members


See also

*
2014 Slovenian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Slovenia on 13 July 2014 to elect the 90 deputies of the National Assembly. The early election, less than three years after the previous one, was called following the resignation of Alenka Bratušek's governme ...
* Prime Minister of Slovenia *
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*
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References


External links


Official website
of the Slovenian Government
Chronology of Slovenian cabinets
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