Aurelio Juri

Last updated

Aurelio Juri (born 27 July 1949) is a Slovenian politician and journalist of Italian ethnic origin. Between 2008 and 2009, he served as Member of the European Parliament. [1] He was an influential member of the Social Democrats, before he left the party in 2009.

Juri was born in an Italian-speaking family of Friulian descent in Pula, Croatia, then part of Yugoslavia. He spent his childhood in the Slovenian coastal town of Koper, where he started his political career in the League of Communists of Slovenia. In 1978, he became a member of the Town Council. A staunch supporter of the reformist wing of the party led by Milan Kučan, became a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Slovenia in 1989, one year before the democratic changes in Slovenia. Between 1986 and 1990, he also served as chairman of the autonomous organization of the Italian Community of Koper.

In 1994, he became mayor of Koper, but resigned in 1996, after being elected to the Slovenian National Assembly on the list of the United List of Social Democrats. He remained in Parliament for three consecutive terms. In November 2008, he replaced the party leader Borut Pahor, who was elected Prime Minister of Slovenia, as a member of the European Parliament.

His brother Franco Juri is a prominent cartoonist, musician, and politician. His son Luka Juri is also a journalist and prominent Social Democrat politician.

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alcide De Gasperi</span> Italian statesman (1881–1954)

Alcide Amedeo Francesco De Gasperi was an Italian politician and statesman who founded the Christian Democracy party and served as prime minister of Italy in eight successive coalition governments from 1945 to 1953.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Social Democrats (Slovenia)</span> Centre-left political party in Slovenia

The Social Democrats is a centre-left and pro-European social-democratic political party in Slovenia led by Matjaž Han. From 1993 until 2005, the party was known as the United List of Social Democrats. It is the successor of the League of Communists of Slovenia. As of 2022, the party is a member of a three-party coalition government with Robert Golob's Freedom Movement alongside The Left, as well as a full member of the Party of European Socialists and Progressive Alliance.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lojze Peterle</span> Prime Minister of Slovenia

Alojz "Lojze" Peterle is a Slovenian politician. He is a member of New Slovenia, part of the European People's Party. He served as Prime Minister of Slovenia from 1990 to 1992, Leader of the Christian Democrats from the founding of the party in 1990 until it merged with the Slovenian People's Party in 2000, and was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1993 to 1994 and again in 2000. He was a Member of the National Assembly from 1996 to 2004, and a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2019.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Borut Pahor</span> 4th President of Slovenia

Borut Pahor is a Slovenian politician who served as President of Slovenia from 2012 to 2022. He previously served as Prime Minister of Slovenia from 2008 to 2012.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Claudio Fava</span> Italian politician (born 1957)

Claudio Fava is an Italian politician and writer. He is the Coordinator of the National Secretariat of Sinistra Ecologia Libertà. He was until 2009 Member of the European Parliament for the Italian Islands with the Democratic Left (SD), part of the Socialist Group and is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Regional Development.

Zares – Social Liberals was a social-liberal political party in Slovenia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pavel Gantar</span> Slovenian politician and sociologist

Pavel Gantar, also known as Pavle Gantar is a Slovenian politician and sociologist. Between 2008 and 2011, he served as speaker of the Slovenian National Assembly. From February 2012 and to their dissolvation in 2015, he has been the president of the social liberal extra-parliamentary party Zares.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">France Bučar</span> Slovenian politician, legal expert and author

France Bučar was a Slovenian politician, legal expert and author. Between 1990 and 1992, he served as the first speaker of the freely elected Slovenian Parliament. He was the one to formally declare the independence of Slovenia on 25 June 1991. He is considered one of the founding fathers of Slovenian democracy and independence. He is also considered, together with Peter Jambrek, the main author of the current Slovenian constitution.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Janez Podobnik</span> Slovenian politician

Janez Podobnik is a Slovenian conservative politician.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Igor Bavčar</span> Slovenian politician and human rights activist

Igor Bavčar is a Slovenian politician and manager. He rose to prominence during the Slovenian spring, when he served as chairman of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, the largest independent civil society movement in the Socialist Republic of Slovenia. He was the Slovenian Minister of Interior during the Slovenian war of independence in June 1991, and coordinated Slovenian defence forces together with the Minister of Defence Janez Janša. He remained one of the most influential political figures in Slovenia until 1992, and remained an important member of the political establishment until 2002, when he left politics to engage in the private sector.

Zoran Thaler is a Slovenian politician and businessman. He is a former Slovenian foreign minister and a former member of the European Parliament.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Engelbert Besednjak</span> Slovene Christian Democrat politician, lawyer and journalist

Engelbert Besednjak was a Slovene Christian Democrat politician, lawyer and journalist. In the 1920s, he was one of the leaders of the Slovene and Croat minority in the Italian-administered Julian March. In the 1930s, he was one of the leaders of Slovene anti-Fascist émigrés from the Slovenian Littoral, together with Josip Vilfan, Ivan Marija Čok and Lavo Čermelj.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Feri Horvat</span> Slovenian politician (1941–2020)

Feri Horvat was a Slovenian manager and politician, and one of the founders of the United List of Social Democrats, now known as the Social Democrats. Between July and October 2004, he served as speaker of the Slovenian National Assembly.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Darko Bratina</span>

Darko Bratina was an Italian sociologist, film theorist and politician of Slovene ethnicity. Between 1992 and 1997, he served as member of the Italian Senate.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Demetrio Volcic</span> Italian politician (1931–2021)

Demetrio Volcic, also known in Slovene as Dimitrij Volčič, was an Italian journalist, author, and politician of Slovenian descent. He rose to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s as foreign correspondent for the Italian television RAI. In the late 1990s, he served as member of the Italian Senate, and later as Member of European Parliament for the European Socialist Party.

Ciril Ribičič is a Slovenian jurist, politician and author. From 2000 to 2009, he served as a member of the Constitutional Court of Slovenia, and was its vice-president from 2007 to 2009.

Spomenka Hribar is a Slovenian author, philosopher, sociologist, politician, columnist, and public intellectual. She was one of the most influential Slovenian intellectuals in the 1980s, and was frequently called "the First Lady of Slovenian Democratic Opposition", and "the Voice of Slovenian Spring" She is married to the Slovenian Heideggerian philosopher Tine Hribar.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Janez Stanovnik</span> Slovenian politician (1922–2020)

Janez Stanovnik was a Slovenian economist, politician, and Partisan. He served as the last President of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia between 1988 and 1990. From 2003 to 2013, he was the president of the Slovenian Partisan Veterans' Association.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mojca Kleva</span> Slovenian politician (born 1976)

Mojca Kleva is a Slovene political scientist and politician born in Koper (Slovenia). On May 9 2011 she became a Member of the European Parliament replacing Zoran Thaler who resigned from the position due to accusations regarding corruption. She is a member of Social Democrats, center-left wing political party in Slovenia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Milan Brglez</span> Slovenian politician

Milan Brglez is a Slovenian political scientist and politician who served as Speaker of the National Assembly of Slovenia from 2014 to 2018. He has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2019. A member of the Social Democrats, part of the Party of European Socialists, Brglez was a candidate in the 2022 presidential election.

References

  1. "Your MEPs : Aurelio JURI". Europa . European Parliament . Retrieved 5 April 2011.