The National Assembly is the general representative body of Slovenia. According to the Constitution of Slovenia and the Constitutional Court of Slovenia,it is the major part of the distinctively incompletely bicameral Slovenian Parliament,the legislative branch of the Republic of Slovenia. It has 90 members,elected for a four-year term. 88 members are elected using the party-list proportional representation system and the remaining two,using the Borda count,by the Hungarian and Italian-speaking ethnic minorities,who have an absolute veto in matters concerning their ethnic groups.
Ivan Janša,baptized and best known as Janez Janša,is a Slovenian politician who served three times as a prime minister of Slovenia,a position he had held from 2004 to 2008,from 2012 to 2013,and from 2020 to 2022. Since 1993,Janša has led the Slovenian Democratic Party,which has emerged as the pre-eminent Slovenian conservative party. Janša lost his fourth bid for prime minister in April 2022,his party defeated by the Freedom Movement party.
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.
Mihael Brejc,also known as Miha Brejc is a Slovenian politician and former Member of the European Parliament.
Janko Prunk is a Slovenian historian of modern history. He has published articles and monographs on analytical politology,modern history,the genesis of modern political formations,and the history of social and political philosophy in Slovenia. He has also written on the history of political movements in Europe from the end of the 18th century until today,especially about Slovene Christian socialism and the history of Slovenian national questions.
Zoran Janković is a Slovenian businessman and politician serving as Mayor of Ljubljana since April 2012. He previously served as mayor from 2006 to 2011.
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.
Peter Jambrek is a Slovenian sociologist,jurist,politician and intellectual. He is considered among the fathers of the current Slovenian Constitution and among the most influential public intellectuals in Slovenia.
The Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Slovenia is a ministry of the Republic of Slovenia,in charge of Slovenia's defence against external enemies and natural disasters.
Lovro Šturm was a Slovenian jurist and politician. He was a law professor and served as the president and judge of the Constitutional Court of Slovenia,the Minister of Education and Minister of Justice of Slovenia.
Parliamentary elections were held in Slovenia on 4 December 2011 to elect the 90 deputies of the National Assembly. This was the first early election in Slovenia's history. The election was surprisingly won by the center-left Positive Slovenia party,led by Zoran Janković. However,he failed to be elected as the new Prime Minister in the National Assembly,and the new government was instead formed by a right-leaning coalition of five parties,led by Janez Janša,the president of the second-placed Slovenian Democratic Party. The voter turnout was 65.60%.
Positive Slovenia was a centre-left political party in Slovenia,following April 2014 led by founder Zoran Janković. The party was founded under the name Zoran Janković's List –Positive Slovenia. It was renamed to Positive Slovenia in its second congress,held on 21 January 2012.
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.
Alenka Bratušek is a Slovenian politician. She was Prime Minister of Slovenia from March 2013 until May 2014,the first woman in Slovenia to hold this position. She was president pro tempore of the Positive Slovenia party from January 2013 until April 2014. On 5 May 2014,Bratušek submitted her resignation as prime minister.
Miroslav Cerar Jr. is a Slovenian law professor and politician. He was Prime Minister of Slovenia,leading the 12th Government. He served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs in the 13th Government. He is a full professor at the Chair of Theory and Sociology of Law at the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Law.
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.
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 National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia was elected in the 3 June 2018 Slovenian parliamentary elections. At the order of President Borut Pahor,it first convened on 22 June 2018. The assembly was in session during the outgoing 12th Government of Prime Minister Miro Cerar and was expected to elect the 13th government. It is the fourth consecutive assembly in which centre-left and left-wing parties have a majority.
Slovenia–Spain relations are the bilateral relations between Slovenia and Spain. Slovenia has an embassy in Madrid and three consulates in Barcelona,San Sebastián and Seville. Spain has an embassy in Ljubljana. The Spanish representation in Slovenia is exercised through the Embassy,which has the support of two Aggregators:Defense and Interior;two departments:Tourism and Economy and Commerce,all of them with residence in surrounding countries,although the Economic and Commercial Office has an Antenna in Ljubljana. There is a Cervantes Classroom under the Instituto Cervantes of Vienna. The relations of these two countries are mainly defined by their membership in both the European Union and the NATO.
Robert Golob is a Slovenian businessman and politician,serving as Prime Minister of Slovenia and leader of the Freedom Movement since 2022.
