The politics of Slovenia takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic,whereby the Prime Minister of Slovenia is the head of government,and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the Government of Slovenia. Legislative power is vested in the National Assembly and in minor part in the National Council. The judiciary of Slovenia is independent of the executive and the legislature. Slovenia is a Member State of the European Union and is represented in the Council of the EU and through elections to the European Parliament.
Janez Drnovšek was a Slovenian liberal politician,President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia (1989–1990),Prime Minister of Slovenia and President of Slovenia (2002–2007).
Anton Rop is a Slovenian politician. Currently,he is a vice-president of European Investment Bank. He was Prime Minister of Slovenia,from 2002 to 2004. Until 2005 he was also the president of the Liberal Democratic Party,the legal successor of the Slovenian Association of Socialist Youth. On 20 March 2007 he left the party and joined the Social Democrats.
Liberal Democracy of Slovenia is a social-liberal political party in Slovenia. Between 1992 and 2004 it was the largest party in the country. In the 2011 Slovenian parliamentary election,it failed to win entry to the Slovenian National Assembly. The party was a member of the Liberal International and the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.
The Slovenian People's Party is a conservative,agrarian,Christian-democratic political party in Slovenia. Formed in 1988 under the name of Slovenian Peasant Union as the first democratic political organization in Yugoslavia,it changed its name to Slovenian People's Party in 1992. On 15 April 2000 it merged with the Slovene Christian Democrats to form the SLS+SKD Slovenian People's Party,and changed its name in 2001 to Slovenian People's Party.
The Social Democrats is a centre-left and pro-European social-democratic political party in Slovenia led by Tanja Fajon. 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.
Dimitrij Rupel is a Slovenian politician.
This article gives an overview of liberalism in Slovenia. It is limited to liberal parties with substantial support,mainly proved by having had a representation in parliament. The sign ⇒means a reference to another party in that scheme. For inclusion in this scheme it isn't necessary so that parties labeled themselves as a liberal party.
Parliamentary elections were held in Slovenia on Sunday,3 October 2004 to elect the 90 deputies of the National Assembly. A total of 1,390 male and female candidates ran in the election,organized into 155 lists. The lists were compiled both by official political parties and the groups of voters not registered as political parties. Five candidates applied for the seat of the representative of the Hungarian "national community" and only one candidate applied for the seat of the representative of the Italian national community. In the previous election (2000),fewer than 1000 candidates on 155 lists applied.
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 November 2008 to February 2012.
Presidential elections were held in Slovenia in October and November 2007 to elect the successor to the second President of Slovenia Janez Drnovšek. France Cukjati,the President of the National Assembly,called the elections on 20 June 2007.
Zares –Social Liberals was a social-liberal political party in Slovenia.
Karl Viktor Erjavec is a Slovenian lawyer and politician who served in the government of Slovenia as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2012 to 2018. He was the president of the Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia,having held the position from 2005 to January 2020 and again from December 2020 until March 2021. He was Minister of Defense from 2004 to 2008 and 2018 to 2020 and Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning from 2008 to 2010.
Gregor Virant is a Slovenian politician and public servant. Between 2004 and 2008,he served as Minister of Public Administration in Janez Janša's first government,between 2011–2013 he was Speaker of the National Assembly of Slovenia. He also served as Minister of the Interior and Public Administration in the government of Alenka Bratušek between 2013 and 2014.
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.
The Slovenian Democratic Union was a Slovene liberal political party,active between 1989 and 1991,during the democratization and the secession of the Republic of Slovenia from Yugoslavia.
Civic List is an inactive classical-liberal extra-parliamentary political party in Slovenia,led by Gregor Virant. LGV won 8.37% of the vote at the early 2011 Slovenian parliamentary election on 4 December 2011,thus gaining 8 seats in the National Assembly. After a quit of its deputy group by one of its deputies in April 2012,it has had 7 seats. Until April 2012 the party was named Gregor Virant's Civic List.
2014 European Parliament elections were held in Slovenia on 25 May 2014. It was the first in the series of three elections held in the 2014,and the major test leading up to the parliamentary elections in July. The political atmosphere was in a crisis that started with the fall of Borut Pahor's government,then Janez Janša's government in 2013,the latter coming after Janša was accused of corruption. The cabinet of Alenka Bratušek was breaking up,as the former leader of the Positive Slovenia Zoran Janković,who was under the suspicion of corruption,announced his candidature for party president,even though the coalition parties threatened to leave the government if he was to be elected,which later he was.
The 8th Government of Slovenia led by Prime Minister Janez Janša was announced on 3 December 2004. The government was formed after the 2004 Slovenian parliamentary election. It was the first government of Janez Janša,and third centre-right government in the history of the Republic of Slovenia. Slovenian Democratic Party won on the elections 29% of the votes and so became the strongest parliamentary party in the National Assembly. The party nominated Janez Janša as the candidate for the mandatary,who was confirmed by the president Janez Drnovšek. It was one of the most stable governments of Slovenia,which ruled in the times of the greatest economical boom. In 2004–2006,the economy grew on average by nearly 5% a year in Slovenia;in 2007,it expanded by almost 7%. The growth surge was fuelled by debt,particularly among firms,and especially in construction. The price for a boom that veered out of control has been paid in years from 2009 onwards.
Parliamentary elections were held in Slovenia on 3 June 2018. The elections were originally expected to be held later in June 2018,but after the resignation of Prime Minister Miro Cerar on 14 March 2018 all parties called for snap elections. They were the third consecutive snap elections after 2011 and 2014.
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