The Slovenian Democratic Party,formerly the Social Democratic Party of Slovenia,is a conservative parliamentary party;it is also one of the largest parties in Slovenia,with approximately 30,000 reported members in 2013.
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.
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.
Mladina is a Slovenian weekly left-wing political and current affairs magazine. Since the 1920s,when it was first published,it has become a voice of protest against those in power. Today,Mladina's weekly issues are distributed throughout the country. Mladina is considered one of the most influential political magazines in Slovenia.
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.
Parliamentary elections were held in Slovenia on 13 July 2014 to elect the 90 deputies of the National Assembly. The early election,less than three years after the previous one,was called following the resignation of Alenka Bratušek's government in May. Seventeen parties participated,including seven new parties,some of which formed only months before the election took place. Party of Miro Cerar (SMC),a new party led by lawyer and professor Miro Cerar,won the election with over 34% of the vote and 36 seats. Seven political parties won seats in the National Assembly. Three political parties left the Assembly,including Zoran Janković's Positive Slovenia,the winner of the 2011 election. A leftist United Left party entered the Assembly for the first time,winning six seats.
United Left was a left-wing electoral alliance in Slovenia between the Democratic Labour Party (DSD),Party for Sustainable Development of Slovenia (TRS),and Initiative for Democratic Socialism (IDS). The alliance was also founded by a "fourth group" of non-party civic groups and movements,and autonomous individuals.
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.
Initiative for Democratic Socialism (IDS) was a Slovenian Marxist party founded on March 8th,2014,and was part of the United Left electoral alliance. Its collective leadership structure without an individual leader,inspired by Occupy Wall Street,was conceived by members of The Workers and Punks University in November 2013,and only allowed for an elected coordinator of the IDS council. Luka Mesec was the first coordinator to be elected. In 2017 the IDS merged with the Party for Sustainable Development of Slovenia (TRS) to form The Left(Slovene:Levica).
The Workers' Front is a democratic socialist and progressive political party in Croatia. Formed in May 2014 as a political initiative of workers,trade unionists,unemployed,and students in Croatia,it supports anti-clericalism,anti-fascism,antimilitarism,eco-socialism,labour rights,progressivism,and socialist feminism. Some left-libertarian and Trotskyist critics characterize it as left-wing populist in the mold of Podemos and SYRIZA.
The Left is an eco-socialist and democratic socialist political party in Slovenia. The party was established on 24 June 2017 by the merger of the Party for Sustainable Development of Slovenia (TRS) and Initiative for Democratic Socialism (IDS). The party is a successor of the left-wing electoral alliance,the United Left.
There are multiple groups and organisations within Slovenia which are or have been engaged in far-right political activity,and right-wing extremism. Their political activity has traditionally opposed and targeted socially progressive policies,and minorities,and espoused traditional ultraconservative and reactionary views and values. More recently,a rise in new,incipient alt-right groups has been noted,particularly as a reaction to the European migrant crisis. While far-right actors have been responsible for multiple acts of violent extremism in Slovenia it is a relatively minor issue in the country.
Parliamentary elections were held in Slovenia on 24 April 2022 to elect all 90 members of the National Assembly.
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.
Jože P. Damijan is a Slovenian economist and politician.
Asta Vrečko is a Slovenian politician. She serves as the minister of culture of the Republic of Slovenia since 2022. She became the coordinator of Levica in September 2023.
Simon Maljevac is a Slovenian LGBT rights activist,politician and current Minister of Solidarity-Based Future of Slovenia. He was the general-secretary of The Left from 2018 to 2022
