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| − | Janez Janša (born September 19, 1976) is the former Prime Minister of Slovenia, a member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia and a member of the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenian: Slovenska demokratska stranka, also known by the acronym SDS). | + | Janez Jansa, born on September 17, 1958, is the leader of the Slovenian Democratic Party since 1993, and served as Minister of Defense from 1990 to 1994, during the War of Independence. He is the former Prime Minister of Slovenia from 2004 to 2008, and again from 2012 to 2013. |
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| − | ==Political Career== | + | ==Biography== |
| − | | + | Janez Jansa joined the Defense Secretariat of the Socialist Slovenian Republic as a trainee. In 1983, Janez Jansa engaged in dissidence against the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA), using the opportunity of the gradual lifting of restrictions on the freedom to speech to express its views in articles and publications. He also engaged at that time in the pacifist moment, being one of the movement’s first Slovenian figures. |
| − | In 1982, Janez Janša was appointed president of the Committee for Basic People's Defence and Social Self-Protection within the framework of the youth organisation Alliance of Socialist Youth of Slovenia (ZSMS). He was dismissed early and lost any possibility of employment due to his critical writings on the Yugoslav People's Army.
| + | In 1989, he was a founding member and vice-president of one of the first Slovenian opposition parties, the Slovenian Democratic Union (SDZ). Following the country’s first free elections in 1990, he became Minister of Defense and served till 1994. In 1993, he was elected president of the SDZ and remained in that position till 2009. In 2004, he became Prime Minister of Slovenia and served until 2008, then was reappointed in 2012 till 2013. He had to resign in 2013, following protests accusing him of subordinating Slovenian media, which too closely resembled the old regime and abuse of power. |
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| − | From 1983 till1986, he was actively involved into political opposition to the communist system via activities in newly emerging pacifist and environmental movements, writing of critical articles for the publications Mladina, Problemi and the Journal for the Criticism of Science, in which he discussed certain politically sensitive topics (political pluralism, conscientious objection, cooperation of the SFRY with dictatorships, use of Slovenian language in the armed forces).
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| − | Janez Janša was also the co-founder of MikroAda, a computer company functioning as a technical base for dissident activities, among many other they printed A Working Paper for the Constitution of Slovenia.
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| − | In 1988, he was arrested by the Slovene Secret Political Police (SDV) on account of his dissidence. He was detained in custody, tried before a military court without the right to legal representation and sentenced to 18 months imprisonment. | |
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| − | During the years 1990–1991, Janša was the Vice-president of the Slovene Democratic Alliance (Slovenian: Slovenska demokratična zveza - SDZ). Following the first democratic elections, he became a deputy and later, the president of the party council.
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| − | In 1993, he was elected the president of the SDS for the first time. During the years 1990–1994, Janša was the Minister of Defence and he achieved the formation of the first Slovenian Armed Forces, which, together with the Slovenian police fended off the aggression of the Yugoslav Army in June 1991 and proclaimed independence. | |
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| − | Later on, he was the Deputy and President of the SDS as well as the head of the Slovenian parliamentary delegation to the North Atlantic Assembly (NAA).
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| − | In 2000, he again obtained the post of the Minister of Defence from June to October. During this mandate the preparation of the second action plan for full NATO membership was made, realistic assessment of the implementation of the basic development programs of defence forces for the period 1994–2003, adoption of a plan for their partial restructuring that was to be completed between 2000 and 2003, and introduction of the right to spiritual care for members of the Slovenian Armed Forces took place.
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| − | In 2004, he was elected the Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia and on 19 November 2007, the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia held a vote of confidence called by Prime Minister Janez Janša in relation to the forthcoming Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, and reconfirmed the Government’s term of office. | |
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| − | Janša became Prime Minister again in 2012, following an early election in December 2011. On 27 February 2013, Janša's second government was ousted in a vote of non-confidence, and Positive Slovenia's Alenka Bratušek was tasked to form a new government. On 5 June 2013, Janša was sentenced to two years in prison on corruption charges. The ruling was confirmed by Slovenia's higher court on 28 April 2014.
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| | ==Education== | | ==Education== |
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| − | In 1982, Janez Janša obtained a degree in defence studies from the Faculty of Sociology, Political Science and Journalism in Ljubljana.
| + | Mr. Janez Jansa graduated from the university of Ljubljana in 1982 with a degree in defense studies. |
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| − | ==Further Information==
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| − | Janez Janša has published several books and hundreds of articles, commentaries, essays and scientific discussions. He has also published several poems and literary essays. One of his books, Premiki (Movements, 1992), describing the processes which led to the creation of the Slovenian state, was printed in an edition of 55,000 copies, and has been translated into English, German and Croatian.
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| − | As a lecturer, a specialist on defence and geostrategic issues, Janez Janša has been invited to several consultations and symposia around the world. He has also spoken at King's College in London, the Centre for Strategic Studies in Washington, as well as at international symposia and NATO consultations in Vienna, Rome, Brussels, Prague, etc.
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| − | == External Links==
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| − | http://www.dz-rs.si/wps/portal/Home/ODrzavnemZboru/KdoJeKdo/PoslankeInPoslanci/poslanec?idOseba=P025
| + | ==Notable work== |
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| − | http://www.nekdanji-pv.gov.si/2004-2008/en/prime_minister_janez_jansa/index.html
| + | As Prime Minister Janez Jansa furthered economic and social reforms to increase welfare in Slovenia and improve the standard of living and during his term of office, the Republic of Slovenia became a recognisable and successful member of the European Union |
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| − | [http://www.ipahp.org/index.php?en_initiatives_the-un-genocide-convention_speech | + | ==Further information== |
| | + | [http://www.ipahp.org/index.php?en_initiatives_the-un-genocide-convention_speech The Initiative on the "Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide"] |
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| | [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEuhB_X-B2M Interview: Janez Jansa] | | [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEuhB_X-B2M Interview: Janez Jansa] |
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| | [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld_qAzNF6MU Interview: Janez Jansa] | | [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld_qAzNF6MU Interview: Janez Jansa] |
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| | + | == External Link: References== |
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| | [http://www.kpv.gov.si/index.php?id=225&L=1 Office of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia] | | [http://www.kpv.gov.si/index.php?id=225&L=1 Office of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia] |
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