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).
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.
New Slovenia –Christian Democrats is a Christian-democratic and conservative political party in Slovenia. Since 2018,it is led by Matej Tonin. The party was formed on 4 August 2000 following a split in the unified Slovenian People's Party and Slovene Christian Democrats (SLS+SKD). NSi is a member of the European People's Party (EPP) and in the European Parliament its MEP Ljudmila Novak sits with the EPP Group.
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.
Andrej Bajuk,also known in Spanish as Andrés Bajuk was a Slovene politician and economist. He served briefly as Prime Minister of Slovenia in the year 2000,and was Minister of Finance in the centre-right government of Janez Janša between 2004 and 2008. He was the founder and first president of the Christian Democratic party called New Slovenia.
Dimitrij Rupel is a Slovenian politician.
Mihael Brejc,also known as Miha Brejc is a Slovenian politician and former Member of the European Parliament.
Democratic Opposition of Slovenia,also known as DEMOS,was a coalition of centre-right political parties created by an agreement between the Slovenian Democratic Union,the Social Democrat Alliance of Slovenia,the Slovene Christian Democrats,the Farmers' Alliance,and the Greens of Slovenia. All these parties emerged in late 1989,when the communist government permitted multiparty political life in Slovenia.
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.
The Slovene Christian Democrats was a Christian-democratic political party in Slovenia between 1989 and 2000.
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.
Milan Zver is a Slovenian politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Slovenia. He is a member of the Slovenian Democratic Party,part of the European People's Party. He is the Vice-President of the Slovenian Democratic Party. He served as Minister of Education and Sports from 2004 to 2008.
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.
The Committee for the Defence of Human Rights was a civil society organization in Slovenia,which functioned during the so-called Slovenian Spring between 1988 and 1990.
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.
The Government of the Republic of Slovenia exercises executive authority in Slovenia pursuant to the Constitution and the laws of Slovenia. It is also the highest administrative authority in Slovenia.
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.
1st Government of Slovenia was elected on 16 May 1990 and was in office until 14 May 1992,when 2nd Government was elected. Prime Minister was Lojze Peterle.
