Alenka Bratušek

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Alenka Bratušek (2013)

Alenka Bratušek (born March 31, 1970 in Celje ) is a Slovenian politician. She was Prime Minister of the country since February (provisional) and March (regular) 2013 . On May 5, 2014, she announced her resignation from office. From September 13, 2018 to March 2020, she was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure of Slovenia in the Šarec cabinet .

Life

Alenka Bratušek studied at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technology of the University of Ljubljana and graduated in 1994 with a diploma. She then worked as a textile engineer. From 1995 to 1999 she worked in the Slovenian Ministry of Economic Affairs and from 1999 to 2011 in the Slovenian Ministry of Finance, most recently as Director General of the Budget Department . Parallel she studied at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Ljubljana Management , for which one it indemnified temporarily from their work in the Ministry of Finance, and earned a master's degree in 2006.

In the general election in Slovenia in 2011 she became the member of the party Positive Slovenia of entry into the Parliament . There she became chair of the Public Finance Control Committee.

In January 2013 she temporarily took over the chairmanship of the party, as the then chairman Zoran Janković was suspected of corruption and suspended his office. On February 27, 2013, the Slovenian parliament expressed its distrust of Prime Minister Janez Janša, who was also suspected of corruption, and elected the previous opposition leader Bratušek as the new Prime Minister. As required by the constitution, she put together her new government within 14 days, which was ratified by parliament on March 20. Your government was a coalition of your party Positive Slovenia with the Socialni democi , the Državljanska lista and the Democratic Pensioners Party of Slovenia .

At the party congress on April 25, 2014, she lost 44.5% to 55.5% of her predecessor Zoran Janković in the election for party chairmanship. As a result, Bratušek resigned from the party. On May 5, 2014, she announced her resignation from the office of Prime Minister. The Austrian newspaper Der Standard wrote about her work as Prime Minister that she had "achieved something that all of her predecessors did not bring together, namely to get Slovenia back on track in terms of economic policy."

Since the coalition partners of the PS rejected an election of Zoran Janković as prime minister, the parliament dissolved. Alenka Bratušek founded the Alenka Bratušek alliance on May 31, 2014 in view of the new elections that this would require ; she was unanimously elected chairman. In the parliamentary elections of 13 July 2014 which abolished alliance Alenka Bratušek indeed to enter parliament, but gained only 4.3% of the vote and four seats, including one for Bratušek itself. On 25 August 2014, the Slovenian Parliament elected Miro Cerar to Bratušek's successor as Prime Minister.

On September 10, 2014, the Slovenian government named Alenka Bratušek as a candidate for the post of Commissioner in the European Commission for the “ Energy Union and Climate Protection” department; at the same time she was planned as one of the vice-presidents in the Juncker Commission . When the EU parliamentarians heard or questioned her on October 6th, she aroused strong doubts about her professional suitability as Commissioner for the designated department. On October 8, 2014, the EU Parliament rejected it with a large majority. Instead, the Slovenian commissioner was Violeta Bulc with the transport agendas . Maroš Šefčovič became the energy commissioner .

In the 2018 parliamentary elections , Alenka Bratušek's party rose to 5.12%, but Alenka Bratušek missed re-entry into parliament due to the lack of preferential votes.

See also

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Web links

Commons : Alenka Bratušek  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pozitivno Slovenijo vodi mag. Alenka Bratušek . ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Mag. Alenka Bratušek leads Positive Slovenia) Press release of the party from January 17, 2013 (Slovenian).  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / pozitivnaslovenija.si
  2. ↑ Thomas Fuster: Slovenia's government at the end: vote of no confidence against Prime Minister Jansa . Neue Zürcher Zeitung , February 27, 2013.
  3. ↑ Bratusek left PS; no answer whether she will continue to rule . ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Radio Si, April 29, 2014; accessed: May 3, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / radiosi.eu
  4. ↑ Boris Cerni: Slovenian Prime Minister Bratusek has resigned . Die Welt vom May 5, 2014, accessed: May 5, 2014
  5. ^ Adelheid Wölfl: Slovenia: New party leader at PS shakes government . Der Standard Online, April 26, 2014
  6. ^ Herbert Geyer / APA: Slovenia: Every politician has her own party . ( Memento from June 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Wirtschaftsblatt , May 31, 2014.
  7. ↑ Hearings in Parliament: bitter opposition to two designated EU commissioners . FAZ.net October 7, 2014
  8. ↑ Thomas Mayer: EU Parliament rejects Bratusek . Der Standard Online, October 8, 2014.
  9. ↑ limited preview in the Google book search
  10. ↑ http://www.delo.si/novice/slovenija/erjavec-in-jelincic-pred-parlamentarnimi-vrati-56931.html
personal data
SURNAME Bratušek, Alenka
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovenian politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Celje