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The National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: Državni zbor Republike Slovenije), or briefly the National Assembly (Državni zbor; acronym DZ), is the general representative body of the Slovenian nation. According to the Constitution of Slovenia and the Constitutional Court of Slovenia, it is the major part of the distinctively incompletely bicameral legislative branch of the Republic of Slovenia.^[1][2] It is unicameral. It has 90 members, elected for a four year term. 88 members elected by the party-list proportional representation system and 2 members elected by national minorities (Italians and Hungarians) using the Borda count, who have an absolute veto in matters concerning their ethnic groups.

On 21 December 2011, the deputies of the National Assembly elected Gregor Virant (Gregor Virant's Civic List, LGV) as the President of the National Assembly. He has succeeded Ljubo Germič (Liberal Democracy of Slovenia, LDS). His opponent in the election was Maša Kociper (Positive Slovenia, PS). On the same day, Ljudmila Novak (New Slovenia, NSi) and Jakob Presečnik (Slovenian People's Party, SLS) were elected by the National Assembly as vice-presidents.^[3]

According to the rules of procedure of the National Assembly, the largest opposition party is entitled to the office of the third vice-president. After the Slovenian Democratic Party led by Janez Janša formed a right-centre coalition with LGV, SLS, Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia (DeSUS), and NSi in January 2012 following the 4 December 2011 parliamentary election,^[4] Renata Bruskole (PS) was elected.^[5][6] Besides PS, the Social Democrats party is in the opposition.^[5] The representatives of national communities, Roberto Battelli (Italian community) and Laszlo Göncz (Hungarian community), have signed an agreement about cooperation with the coalition, but are formally not part of it.^[4]

Presidents of the National Assembly

1. France Bučar (SDZ): 17 May 1990 – 23 December 1992
2. Herman Rigelnik (LDS): 23 December 1992 – 16 September 1994
3. Jožef Školč (LDS): 16 September 1994 – 3 December 1996
4. Janez Podobnik (SLS): 3 December 1996 – 10 November 2000
5. Borut Pahor (ZLSD): 10 November 2000 – 12 July 2004
6. Feri Horvat (ZLSD): 12 July 2004 – 22 October 2004
7. France Cukjati (SDS): 22 October 2004 – 15 October 2008
8. Pavel Gantar (Zares): 15 October 2008 – 2 September 2011
9. Ljubo Germič (LDS): 2 September 2011 – 21 December 2011
10. Gregor Virant (LGV/DL): 21 December 2011 – present

Uses

The National Assembly contains offices of deputies, general secretary of the national assembly and the office of the President of The national assembly.

Latest election

Previous elections

See also

• List of Presidents of the National Assembly of Slovenia

References

Further reading

• Toplak, Jurij. The parliamentary election in Slovenia, October 2004. Electoral Studies 25 (2006) 825-831.

External links

• National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia (official page).

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