Igor Bavčar

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Igor Bavčar
Minister of the Interior
In office
16 May 1990 – 25 January 1993
Preceded byTomaž Ertl
Succeeded byIvan Bizjak
Personal details
Born (1955-11-28) 28 November 1955 (age 68)
Postojna, Slovenia
Political partySlovenian Democratic Union
Alma materUniversity of Ljubljana
ProfessionPolitician, Businessman

Igor Bavčar (born 28 November 1955) is a

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.

Early career

Igor Bavčar was born in the town of

Maoist
tendencies.

In the early 1980s, he joined the

Socialist Alliance of the Working People, an auxiliary organization of the Communist party, founded to cover the civil society sphere. In 1987, Bavčar organized a conference on ecological policies in Yugoslavia that had a wide echo in the public debate. The same year, he left the Communist Party. Together with Janez Janša, he established contacts with Stane Kavčič
, a former reformist Slovenian Communist politician who had been deposed during the authoritative turn in Yugoslav internal policy in 1972, and published his memoirs.

Politician

In May 1988, when the Yugoslav People's Army arrested four journalists of the alternative magazine Mladina, including his friend Janez Janša, Bavčar became one of the founding members of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights. The organization soon became the biggest civil society organization in Slovenia, with more than 100,000 members (almost 5% of the overall population of the country). Bavčar thus rose to the role of the informal leader of the Slovenian opposition to the Communist government. Between 1989 and 1990, he was among those who negotiated the changes in the electoral law that enabled a smooth transition to democracy.

In 1989, he was among the founding members of the

Democratic Party. After the crisis in the DEMOS coalition in early 1992, after the fall of Lojze Peterle's government, Bavčar unsuccessfully tried to get elected as Prime Minister. He finally joined the coalition government of Janez Drnovšek
.

He was elected member of the

National Assembly of Slovenia in 1992. In 1994, he joined the ruling Liberal Democracy of Slovenia. Between 1997 and 2002, he served as Minister for European integration in the left wing government of Janez Drnovšek. During this period, he parted with his old friend Janez Janša, who had joined the Slovenian Democratic Party
and rose to become the leader of the conservative opposition.

Business career and corruption charges

In 2002, Bavčar announced his withdrawal from politics. On the same year, he became the chairman of the

world financial crisis. On 31 March 2009 Bavčar resigned as the President of Istrabenz.[1] Six months later he was arrested in financial fraud investigation and released after 10 hours.[2] In September 2016, he was found guilty of money laundering and sentenced to 5 years of prison along with an 18 million euro penalty.[3]

See also

  • JBTZ-trial
Political offices
Preceded by
Minister of the Interior

16 May 1990 – 25 January 1993 		Succeeded by

References

  1. ^ Dnevnik: Maratonska seja zaključena: Igor Bavčar odstopil z mesta predsednika uprave Istrabenza
  2. ^ 24ur: VIDEO: Kako so odpeljali Boška Šrota?
  3. ^ 24 UR: Bavčar se bo pritožil na odločitev sodišča, ki ga je obsodilo na pet let zapora in 18 milijonov evrov denarne kazni
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