2018 in Slovenia

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Events in the year 2018 in Slovenia .

Incumbents

• President: Borut Pahor
• Prime Minister: Miro Cerar (until 13 September 2018), Marjan Šarec (from 13 September 2018)

Events

• March 14 – Prime Minister Miro Cerar announces his resignation following complications with planning the upgrade of the Divača–Koper Railway, one of the key infrastructural projects of his government. ^[1]
• May 13 – national referendum on the Divača–Koper Railway upgrade is repeated, but the new referendum again doesn't reach the prescribed quorum. ^[2]
• May 24 – The Constitutional Court unanimously upheld the ban of all forms of ritual slaughter, stating that 'the Constitution did not allow easily preventable suffering to be inflicted on animals without a justified cause', and that this provision did 'not disproportionally interfere' with religious freedom. ^[3]
• June 3 – Slovenian Democratic Party led by Janez Janša wins the majority in the snap parliamentary election. ^[4]
• September 7 – Aljaž Tower, a symbol of Slovenia, is removed from the summit of Triglav for the first time in 123 years and transported to Ljubljana for repairs. ^[5]
• September 13 – new government under premier Marjan Šarec is formed after Janez Janša fails to secure a coalition, the first minority government in the history of Slovenia. ^[6]
• September 15 – after Let's Clean Slovenia 2012 , a nation-wide volunteer clean-up effort is again organized by the Ecologists Without Borders society. ^[7]

Deaths

Demeter Bitenc

• February 26 – Veljko Rus, sociologist (b. 1929). ^[8]
• March 21– Dejan Bravničar, violinist (b. 1937)
• April 22 – Demeter Bitenc, actor (b. 1922)
• June 8 – Janko Pleterski, historian, politician and diplomat (b. 1923). ^[9]
• June 25 - Štefka Drolc, actress (b. 1923) ^[10]
• August 24 - Ciril Zlobec, writer, journalist and politician (b. 1925).
• September 13 - Ivo Petrić, composer (b. 1931)
• October 16 - Lidija Sotlar, ballerina and teacher (b. 1929). ^[11]

References

1. "Miro Cerar odstopil s položaja predsednika vlade". RTV Slovenija. 2018-03-14. Retrieved 2018-09-17.
2. "Referendum pobudnikom tudi tokrat ni uspel". Delo . 2018-05-15. Retrieved 2018-09-17.
3. "Slovenia's Constitutional Court Rules Ban on Halal Slaughter Legal". Total Slovenia News. 24 May 2018. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
4. Pečauer, Marko (2018-06-04). "Zmaga Slovenske demokratske stranke, a brez obljube oblasti". Dnevnik . Retrieved 2018-09-17.
5. Intihar, Anja (2018-09-07). "Zgodovinski dan: Aljažev stolp uspešno prepeljali v dolino". Delo. Retrieved 2018-09-07.
6. "Poslanci potrdili ministrsko ekipo 13. slovenske vlade". RTV Slovenija. 2018-09-13. Retrieved 2018-09-17.
7. "Znova čistimo Slovenijo". Delo. 2018-09-15. Retrieved 2018-09-17.
8. "Umrl filozof in socolog Veljko Rus". siol.net (in Slovenian). Retrieved 2018-03-13.
9. "Poslovil se je Janko Pleterski". Delo (in Slovenian). Retrieved 2018-06-10.
10. "Poslovila se je Štefka Drolc, eno največjih igralskih imen pri nas" [Goodbye by Štefka Drolc, One of Our Greatest Actor Names]. RTV Slovenija. 2018-06-25. Retrieved 2018-06-25.
11. "Sotlar, Lidija". Croatian Encyclopedia (in Croatian). Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography. 2021. Retrieved 17 November 2022.