The Slovenian Parliament () is the informal designation of the general representative body of the

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n nation and the

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of the Republic of Slovenia. According to the

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, the general representative body of the Slovenian nation is the

National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repr ...

. The general public in Slovenia often refer to the National Assembly alone as the Slovenian Parliament. However, the National Council, the representative body of basic social groups, also performs a further, if minor, part of the legislative function. The opinions of experts and of the general Slovenian public on whether the Slovenian Parliament is

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differ, although most consider it to be incompletely bicameral. In 2008, the

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recognized the Slovenian Parliament as incompletely bicameral.

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The National Assembly and the National Council convene in a

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palace known as the "Slovenian Parliament" and sited in Republic Square, Ljubljana. It was built between 1954 and 1959 by the architect . An unrealized project for a Slovenian Parliament building, designed by the architect

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in the late 1940s, features on the

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