Lojze Peterle
Lojze Peterle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Minister of Foreign Affairs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 7 June 2000 – 30 November 2000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Andrej Bajuk | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Dimitrij Rupel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Dimitrij Rupel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 25 January 1993 – 31 October 1994 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Janez Drnovšek | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Dimitrij Rupel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Zoran Thaler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | Alojz Peterle 5 July 1948 Čužnja Vas, PR Slovenia, FPR Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Political party | New Slovenia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other political affiliations | Christian Democrats (Before 2000) People’s Party (2000) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Ljubljana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alojz "Lojze" Peterle (born 5 July 1948) is a
Early life and career
Lojze Peterle was born to a peasant family in the Lower Carniolan village of Čužnja Vas near Trebnje. He attended the Novo Mesto Grammar School. In 1967, he enrolled in the University of Ljubljana, where he studied history and geography, and later also economy. During his student years, he started collaborating with the Christian left intellectual circle around the journal Revija 2000.
In the 1980s, Peterle started working at the Institute for Urban planning of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia. In the mid-1980s, he was involved in several projects of trans-regional cooperation within the Alpe-Adria regional cooperation network.
Political career
Leader of the Christian Democrats, 1990–2000
In 1990, he was elected president of the newly founded Slovene Christian Democrats.
Peterle became
Peterle served as deputy prime minister and
In the
Between 1996 and 2000, the Christian Democrats remained in opposition, and Peterle's leadership was frequently challenged by different fractions within the party. He nevertheless managed to remain the chairman of the Party until 2000, when the Christian Democrats merged with the Slovenian People's Party, which had until then supported Janez Drnovšek's third term as prime minister. As a consequence, Drnovšek's government fell in 2000, and Peterle became foreign minister again in the short-lived centre-right government of Andrej Bajuk from June 2000 to November 2000.
After the 2000 election
Due to a disagreement over the election legislation, Peterle left the
Member of the European Parliament, 2004–2019
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In 2002, Peterle became the 13th member of the steering committee of the Convention on the Future of Europe, which drafted the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe.[2]
In the 2004 elections to the European Parliament, Peterle was elected for New Slovenia, as a member of the European People's Party (EPP). In March 2006, he was elected as Vice President of the European People's Party for a three-year term after recovering from cancer in April 2003.
Peterle served on the
In addition to his committee assignments, Peterle chaired the parliament's delegation to the EU-former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee since 2014. He previously served on the delegations for relations with the countries of
In November 2006, Peterle announced that he would be running for President of Slovenia in the 2007 presidential election. Backed by most of the centre-right government,[4] he was considered the front-runner before the first round of the election, but ultimately lost in a landslide to Danilo Türk in the second round.
He is a founder and current President of the group MEPs Against Cancer (MAC).
In September 2016, Peterle joined more than 50 MEPs from six different political groups – including Christofer Fjellner, Ashley Fox, Vicky Ford and Beatrix von Storch – in signing a proposal for a two-term limit of the President of the European Parliament. This move was widely seen as an effort to prevent incumbent Martin Schulz from holding onto the presidency for a third consecutive term.[5]
Peterle was not re-elected to the European Parliament at the 2019 European Parliament election in Slovenia.[6]
Other activities
Peterle is president of the Slovenian beekeepers association and hosted the 2003 Apimondia beekeepers congress in Ljubljana.[7]
Honours
References
- ^ "Your MEPs:Alojz PETERLE". European Parliament. Retrieved 21 March 2010.
- European Voice.
- ^ Supporters MEP Heart Group.
- ^ Marja Novak (April 1, 2016), Leftist wins Slovenia presidential runoff Reuters.
- ^ Maïa de La Baume (September 30, 2016), Term limit could take Schulz out of presidential picture Politico Europe.
- ^ "Izidi glasovanja za celotno Slovenijo". volitve.gov.si. 2019.
- European Voice, July 9, 2003.
External links
- Official Website
- Personal profile of Lojze Peterle in the European Parliament's database of members
- Declaration (PDF) of financial interests (in Slovene)
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