Urška Klakočar Zupančič (born 19 June 1977) is a Slovenian

jurist A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyzes and comments on law. This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal education in law (a law degree) and often a Lawyer, legal prac ...

and politician. She is a member and vice-chairperson of the Freedom Movement political party. In the

2022 Slovenian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Slovenia on 24 April 2022 to elect all 90 members of the National Assembly. The ruling Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS), led by prime minister Janez Janša, conceded and was defeated by Robert Golob and his ...

, she got elected to the

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. On 13 May 2022, she was elected as the Speaker of the National Assembly, she became the first woman to hold this position.

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