Janez Drnovšek (; 17 May 1950 – 23 February 2008) was a Slovenian
liberal politician
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,
President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia
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(1989–1990),
Prime Minister of Slovenia
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(1992–2002, with a short break in 2000) and
President of Slovenia
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(2002–2007).
Youth and early career
Drnovšek was born in
Celje
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and was raised in the small town of
Kisovec in the Municipality of
Zagorje ob Savi, where his father Viktor (1923–2006) was the local mine chief and his mother Silva (1921–1978) was a homemaker. Drnovšek graduated from the
University of Ljubljana
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with a degree in economics in 1973.
Meanwhile, he worked as an intern at a
Le Havre
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bank. In 1975, at the age of 25, he became chief financial officer at SGP Beton Zagorje, a construction company. Two years later he became, for one year, an economic adviser at the
Yugoslav embassy
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in
Cairo
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.
He defended his master's thesis in 1981 and in 1986 he defended his dissertation at the Faculty of Economics and Business at the
University of Maribor
The University of Maribor () is Slovenia's second-largest university, established in 1975 in Maribor, Slovenia. It currently has 17 faculties.
History
The university's roots reach back to 1859 when a theological seminary was established wi ...
. In 1983, he became head of the local branch of Ljubljana Bank in his home region of the
Central Sava Valley
The Central Sava Valley () is a valley in the Sava Hills and a geographic region along the Sava in central Slovenia, now constituting the Central Sava Statistical Region. The region consists of three municipalities: Zagorje ob Savi, Trbovlje, an ...
in central Slovenia. In 1986 he was chosen to be a delegate at the Slovenian Republic Assembly (parliament) and also the Chamber of Republics and Provinces of the Yugoslav parliament.
Membership in the Yugoslav presidency
In 1989,
Stane Dolanc, the
Slovenian representative to the collective
presidency of Yugoslavia
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, retired. The
League of Communists of Slovenia
The League of Communists of Slovenia (, ZKS; ) was the Slovenian branch of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, the sole legal party of Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1990. It was established in April 1937 as the Communist Party of Slovenia and was ...
, aware of upcoming democratisation, decided to organize elections between two candidates for the position. Drnovšek, until then rather unknown to the public, defeated
Marko Bulc, the Party's preferred candidate.
The Communist leaderships of other Yugoslav republics did not agree with this new way of selecting the representative to the Collective Presidency, so the Slovenian Republic Parliament had to confirm the result of the elections. Drnovšek served as chairman of the Collective Presidency from 1989–90. While he was chairman of the presidency, he was also chairman of the
Non-Aligned Movement
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and the commander of the
Yugoslav People's Army
The Yugoslav People's Army (JNA/; Macedonian language, Macedonian, Montenegrin language, Montenegrin and sr-Cyrl-Latn, Југословенска народна армија, Jugoslovenska narodna armija; Croatian language, Croatian and ; , J ...
. In the capacity of the chairman of the Non-Aligned Movement Drnovšek notably opened the
9th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in
Belgrade
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with the speech in
Slovenian language
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.
Until the end of communist rule he was an active member of the Communist Party. After the democratic changes in Slovenia, the country seceded from Yugoslavia. Following the
Ten Day War, Drnovšek used his position in the collective presidency to help mediate the
Brioni Agreement and to negotiate a peaceful withdrawal of the Yugoslav army from Slovenia.
Prime Minister of Slovenia
In 1992, after a Government crisis in the
DEMOS coalition
Democratic Opposition of Slovenia, also known as DEMOS (in Slovenian: ''Demokratična opozicija Slovenije''), was a coalition of centre-right political parties created by an agreement between the Slovenian Democratic Union, the Social Democrat ...
, which had won the first democratic elections in Slovenia in 1990 and led the country to independence, Drnovšek became the second
Prime Minister
A prime minister or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. A prime minister is not the head of state, but r ...
of independent Slovenia. He was chosen as a compromise candidate and an expert in economic policy.
His bi-partisan government was supported both by the left and centrist wing of the dissolved
DEMOS coalition
Democratic Opposition of Slovenia, also known as DEMOS (in Slovenian: ''Demokratična opozicija Slovenije''), was a coalition of centre-right political parties created by an agreement between the Slovenian Democratic Union, the Social Democrat ...
(the
Social Democratic Party of Slovenia, the
Democratic Party and the
Greens of Slovenia) and by three parties that derived from organizations of the former Communist regime (the
Liberal Democratic Party, the
Party of Democratic Reform and the
Socialist Party of Slovenia).
Shortly afterwards, Drnovšek was elected president of the
Liberal Democratic Party (''Liberalno demokratska stranka'' – LDS), the legal successor of the Association of Socialist Youth of Slovenia (''Zveza socialistične mladine Slovenije'' – ZSMS), the youth fraction of the
Communist Party of Slovenia.
In 1992, the Liberal Democratic Party under Drnovšek's leadership won the parliamentary elections, but due to a high fragmentation of the popular vote had to ally itself with other parties in order to form a stable government. Despite a politically turbulent mandate (in 1994, the
Social Democratic Party of Slovenia left the coalition), the Party gained votes in 1996, remaining the largest party in the government.
Nevertheless, Drnovšek barely secured himself a third term in office after a failed attempt to ally himself with the
Slovenian National Party
The Slovenian National Party (, SNS) is a nationalist political party in Slovenia led by Zmago Jelinčič Plemeniti. The party is known for its Euroscepticism and opposes Slovenia's membership in NATO.Krupnick, Charles (2003)''Almost NATO: Par ...
. In 1997, the
Liberal Democracy of Slovenia
Liberal Democracy of Slovenia (, LDS) is a social-liberal political party in Slovenia. Between 1992 and 2004, it (and its main predecessor, the Liberal Democratic Party) was the largest (and ruling) party in the country. In the 2011 Slovenian pa ...
formed a coalition government with the populist
Slovenian People's Party which finally enabled Drnovšek to serve a third term in office.
He headed the government until May 2000, when he stepped down due to disagreements with the
Slovenian People's Party. After less than six months in opposition, Drnovšek returned to power in the autumn of 2000, after his party gained a clear victory in the parliamentary elections.
Drnovšek's governments guided Slovenia's political and
economic reconstruction
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. He successfully tackled the twin tasks of reorienting Slovenia's trade away from the wreckage of the old Yugoslavia towards the West and replacing the ineffective Communist-era business model with more market-based mechanisms.
Unlike the other five former Yugoslav republics which were run for much of the 1990s by frequently authoritarian presidents, Slovenia under Drnovšek's premiership quickly emerged from the break-up of the federation as a functioning
parliamentary democracy
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. Drnovšek's political strategy was concentrated on broad coalitions, transcending ideological and programmatic divisions between parties.

Contrary to some other former Communist countries in
Eastern Europe
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, the economic and social transformation in Slovenia pursued by Drnovšek's governments followed a
gradualist approach.
Drnovšek was a staunch supporter of Slovenia's entry in the
European Union
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and
NATO
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and was largely responsible for Slovenia's successful bid for membership in both of those organizations. As Prime minister, he was frequently active on foreign policy issues. On 16 June 2001, he helped to arrange the first meeting of the U.S. President
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and businessman who was the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Bush family and the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, he i ...
with the Russian President
Vladimir Putin
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, which was held in the
Upper Carniola
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n estate of
Brdo pri Kranju. (
Bush-Putin 2001) In 2002, he ran for
President of Slovenia
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, and was elected in the second round, defeating the center-right candidate
Barbara Brezigar.
President of Slovenia and the change in lifestyle
Drnovšek's presidency was highly controversial. In the first three years in office, he rarely appeared in public, save for the most important official duties. In 2006, however, a change of style became visible. He launched several campaigns in foreign policy, such as a failed humanitarian mission to
Darfur
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and a proposal for the solution of the political crisis in
Kosovo
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. On January 30, 2006, he left the
Liberal Democracy of Slovenia
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. Shortly afterwards, he founded the
Movement for Justice and Development and became its first president. He claimed this was not meant to be a political movement, but rather a wide initiative, aiming to "raise human consciousness and make the world a better place". On June 26, 2006, he announced that he would not be running for a second term in an interview on
TV Slovenia.
Conflict with the Government

The
2004 legislative election brought further changes and a political swing to the right.
Janez Janša
Ivan Janša (; born 17 September 1958), better 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 ...
, the leader of a right-wing coalition, formed the new government. In Slovenia, this was the first time after 1992 that the President and the Prime Minister had represented opposing political factions for more than a few months. Between 2002-04, the relationship between President Drnovšek and Janez Janša, then leader of the opposition, were considered more than good and in the first year of cohabitation, no major problems arose.
In the beginning of his term, Drnovšek, who was ill with
kidney cancer
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, stayed out of public view. When he reemerged in late 2005 he had already changed his lifestyle: he had become a
vegan
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(though one of his colleagues in a televised interview mentioned their regular Sunday visits to a pizzeria in Maxi market, Ljubljana), moved out of the capital into the countryside, and withdrew from party politics completely, ending his already frozen membership in the Liberal Democracy. Drnovšek's new approach to politics prompted one political commentator to nickname him "Slovenia's
Gandhi
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".

The relationship between Drnovšek and the government quickly became tense. Disagreements began with Drnovšek's initiatives in foreign politics, aimed at solving major foreign conflicts, including those in
Darfur
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and
Kosovo
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.
Initially, these initiatives were not openly opposed by the Prime Minister
Janez Janša
Ivan Janša (; born 17 September 1958), better 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 ...
, but were criticized by the foreign minister
Dimitrij Rupel, Drnovšek's former collaborator and close political ally until 2004.
A major clash between the two happened in Summer 2006, when disagreement arose over Drnovšek's attempt to intervene in the Darfur conflict. The disagreements moved from issues of domestic politics in October 2006, when Drnovšek publicly criticised the treatment of the Strojans, a
Romani family whose neighborhood had forced them to relocate, which in turn had subjected them to police supervision and limitation of movement.
The disagreements however escalated when the parliamentary majority repeatedly rejected President's candidates for the Governor of the
Bank of Slovenia, beginning with the rejection of incumbent
Mitja Gaspari. The friction continued over the appointment of other state official nominees, including
Constitutional Court
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judges. Although the President's political support suffered after his personal transformation, the polls nevertheless showed public backing of the President against an increasingly unpopular Government.
The tension reached its apex in May 2007, when the newly appointed director of the
Slovenian Intelligence and Security Agency Matjaž Šinkovec
Matjaž Šinkovec (; born on 22 May 1951) is a Slovenian diplomat, politician, translator, journalist and science fiction writer. He was one of the co-founders of the Slovenian Democratic Party.
Early life and career
Šinkovec was born in a mi ...
unclassified several documents from the period before 2004, revealing, among other, that Drnovšek had used secret service funds for personal purposes between 2002-04. The President reacted with a harsh criticism of the government's policies, accusing the ruling coalition of abusing its power for personal delegitimations and labeled the then current Prime Minister
Janez Janša
Ivan Janša (; born 17 September 1958), better 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 ...
as "the leader of the negative guys"
In the last months in office, Drnovšek continued his attacks on Prime Minister Janez Janša, who mostly remained silent on the issue. Drnovšek accused Janša of "fostering proto-totalitarian tendencies". He became a
blog
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ger
Janez D, signing his posts as "Janez D" and expressing opinions on various issues from foreign policy, environmentalism, human relationships, religion, animal rights and personal growth. In his last months in office, he withdrew to a reclusive life again, devoting his time to the
Movement for Justice and Development and the popularization of his lifestyle and views.
Lifestyle changes
During his time in office as the President of Slovenia, he wrote and published several books in
spiritual philosophy
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, including ''Misli o življenju in zavedanju'' ("Thoughts on Life and Consciousness"), ''Zlate misli o življenju in zavedanju'' ("Golden Thoughts on Life and Consciousness"), ''Bistvo sveta'' ("The Essence of the World"), and his last one called ''Pogovori'' or Dialogues. According to his own accounts, it took him only two or three weeks to write each of his books, due to – in his words – "the higher consciousness" he was able to access.
His lifestyle was a mixture of elements from various traditions, including
Hindu
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religious thought and the non-attachment of
Buddhist
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philosophy. He also valued the indigenous traditions of the world. For example, he was present at the inauguration of
Evo Morales
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, the first native American president of
Bolivia
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, and later hosted Bolivian ethnic musicians in the
Presidential Palace
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in Ljubljana. After his cancer diagnosis, Drnovšek became a
vegan
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and claimed that this greatly improved his health.
Because of his new lifestyle and the content of his books and blogs, he was often regarded as an adherent of the
New Age
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movement, although he rejected such a qualification as being too narrow.
Personal life
Drnovšek was fluent in six languages, namely his native
Slovene,
Serbo-Croatian
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,
English,
Spanish
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* Items from or related to Spain:
**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many countries in the Americas
**Spanish cuisine
**Spanish history
**Spanish culture
...
,
French and
German
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* Germany, the country of the Germans and German things
**Germania (Roman era)
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.
He was divorced with one son, Jaša, who is a translator and journalist.
In 2005, he found out about the existence of a daughter,
Nana Forte, otherwise a renowned composer. His sister is Helena Drnovšek Zorko, who has been the Slovenian ambassador in Japan since September 2010.
Death
In 1999, Drnovšek had
kidney cancer
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resulting in the removal of a kidney. In 2001, he had cancerous formations on his lungs and liver. He repeatedly claimed
nature
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was the best cure, and spent most of his days at his home in Zaplana. He died there on February 23, 2008, aged 57, just two months after his presidential term ended. His body was cremated shortly afterwards. His remains were buried with honors in a private memorial service in his native
Zagorje ob Savi, alongside his parents.
Books by Drnovšek
* ''Pogovori'' (''Conversations''). Mladinska knjiga, 2007
* ''Bistvo sveta'' (''Essence of the World''). Mladinska knjiga, 2006
* ''Misli o življenju in zavedanju'' (''Thoughts on life and awareness''). Mladinska knjiga, 2006
*
Escape from Hell' (published as
e-book
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).
* ''El laberinto de los Balcanes''. Edicciones B, 1999.
* ''Moja resnica : Jugoslavija 1989 - Slovenija 1991'' (''My truth: Yugoslavia 1989 - Slovenia 1991''). Mladinska knjiga, 1996.
Honours
National honours
*

Gold
Order of Freedom of the Republic of Slovenia, 1992
Foreign honours
References
External links
President of the Republic of Slovenia website www2.gov.si; accessed 11 May 2018.
nekdanji-pv.gov.si; accessed 11 May 2018.
Movement for Justice and Development website gibanje.org; accessed 11 May 2018.
"All hail the mystic President" ''
The Times
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'', 15 November 2007.
Obituary independent.co.uk; accessed 11 May 2018.
Council of Europe (site for Dr Janez Drnovsek, including links to most of his articles and other written works) coe.int; accessed 11 May 2018.
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