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Alojz
Peterle
National Assembly of Slovenia
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Peterle is currently the chairperson
of the Slovene parliamentary commission for European affairs and an
MP of the opposition New Slovenia (NSi). The candidates' member in
the presidency will have the status of a guest, as the post had not
initially been envisaged. Peterle, born in 1948, became prime minister
after the first multi-party elections in Slovenia in April 1990, and
held the post of foreign minister in the Janez Drnovsek government
from 1992 to 1994. Moreover, in June 2000 he became foreign minister
in the Andrej Bajuk government, and was re-elected to parliament in
the October 2000 general elections. Peterle, who is a graduate of
geography and history, was also president of the Slovene Christian
Democrats (SKD), a conservative party which merged with the former
People's Party (SLS) into the SLS+SKD Slovene People's Party in April
2000. He was one of the founding members of the opposition NSi, which
was established in August 2000 after a split in the SLS+SKD Slovene
People's Party. The NSi - led by President Andrej Bajuk - has eight
seats in the 90-seat Slovene parliament.
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