Macedonians in Slovenia are ethnic Macedonians who reside in Slovenia. According to the official census of 2002,there are 3,972 declared Macedonians in Slovenia,with 4,760 listing Macedonian as their mother tongue.
Peter Vilfan is a Slovenian former professional basketball player,sports journalist,commentator,and a politician. He resigned from the National Assembly due to DUI in 2014,and from the State Secretary position in 2019 amid tax evasion proceedings.
Alma Mater Europaea is an international university network based in Salzburg,Austria,and Alma Mater Europaea University,its major member,is a university in Slovenia,with campuses in several European cities.
Katarina Majerhold is a Slovenian philosopher,writer and editor. She is particularly interested in philosophy of emotions,especially in philosophy of love and sexuality,happiness,philosophical counseling and ethics. In 2017 she published an article on the History of Love in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. She has been a member of Society for the Philosophy of Sex + Love since 1998. In 2020 she wrote her concept of love as a creative dynamic work In which she claims that all known western concepts of love are based on lack of something or someone,such as primordial wholeness,God,Mother,whereas she founds her concept of love as happy and peaceful on pragmatical,enthusiastic and ecstatic foundation that promotes personal and couple's happiness,reciprocity,(sexual) satisfaction and creative and intellectual work. Her article The Crisis of the Meaning of Philosophy (2003) was awarded as an essay of the decade by the journal Sodobnost in 2012,and reproduced on radio.
Dušan Radonjič is a Slovenian economist,university professor and member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Presidential elections were held in Slovenia on 22 October 2017. Nine candidates ran in the first round of the elections,in which the incumbent independent President Borut Pahor placed first and Marjan Šarec of the List of Marjan Šarec (LMŠ) placed second. No candidate received a majority of the vote in the first round,resulting in a run-off between Pahor and that was held on 12 November 2017. Pahor won the run-off with 53% of the vote;voter turnout in the second round was 42.13%,the lowest in any presidential election since independence.
In the run up to the 2022 Slovenian parliamentary election,various organizations carried out opinion polling to gauge voting intention in Slovenia. Results of such polls are displayed in this article. The date range for these opinion polls are from the 2018 Slovenian parliamentary election,held on 3 June,to the present day. The next parliamentary election was held on 24 April 2022.
Jurij Toplak is a constitutional scholar,university administrator,election law,and human rights expert. He is professor at University of Maribor and the head of the Cultural Formations research group at the Alma Mater Europaea University,and recurring visiting professor at the Fordham University School of Law in New York. Since 2016,he has served as the provost and vice-president of the Alma Mater Europaea university. The Washington Post,The Guardian,The Wall Street Journal,Financial Times,The New York Times,and The Boston Globe published his legal comments. Toplak is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and serves as the co-chair of the International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL) Freedom of Expression research group.
Zinka Zorko was a Slovenian linguist and academic. Her research focused on phonetic,theological,syntactic,and vocabulary phenomena of Carinthian,Styrian,and Pannonian dialect groups. In 2003,she was elected a full member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts,and a decade later,she received the Zois Lifetime Achievement Award.
Andrej Vizjak is a Slovenian politician. Between 2004 and 2008 he served as Minister of Economy in the 8th Government of Slovenia,and between 2012 and 2013 as Minister of Labour,Family and Social Affairs in the 10th Government of Slovenia. From 2020 to 2022 he was Minister of the Environment and Spatial Planning in the 14th Government of Slovenia.
Slavko Vesenjak is a Slovenian lawyer. He is the author of scientific articles and a lecturer. He has represented several high-profile cases before the Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights. He was a member of the National Electoral Commission.
Janez Poklukar is a Slovenian politician and doctor. As of 23 February 2021,he is Minister of Health in the 14th Government of Slovenia. Previously he held the position of CEO in Ljubljana University Medical Centre.
The Freedom Movement is a social-liberal political party in Slovenia. It was founded on 26 January 2022,as the successor of the Party of Green actions (Z.DEJ). At the January congress,Robert Golob was elected as the party's first president and the party received its new identity and name.
Presidential elections were held in Slovenia on 23 October 2022. Incumbent President Borut Pahor was ineligible to run for a third consecutive term due to term limits.
Robert Golob is a Slovenian businessman and politician,serving as Prime Minister of Slovenia and leader of the Freedom Movement since 2022.
Irena Šinko is a Slovenian government official and lawyer. She serves as the minister of agriculture,forestry and food of the Republic of Slovenia since 2022.
Klemen Boštjančič Slovenian businessman and politician. He has served as the minister of finance of the Republic of Slovenia since 2022.
Mark Boris Andrijanič is a Slovenian politician and lawyer.
Viktor Markelj is a Slovenian structural engineer and bridge specialist.
Nataša Pirc Musar is a Slovenian attorney and author,serving as the 5th president of Slovenia since 2022. She is the former Information commissioner (2004–2014),a former journalist,and former president of the Slovenian Red Cross (2015–2016).
