Franc Kangler

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Franc Kangler (born July 8, 1965 in Maribor [German: Marburg]) is a Slovenian politician (formerly SLS ). He was a member of parliament and from 2006 to the end of 2012 mayor of Maribor.

Life

Kangler grew up in the Marburg suburb of Duplek . Before his political career he was a police officer and worked in the Ministry of the Interior after Slovenia's independence. In 1996 Franc Kangler was elected to the Slovenian State Assembly for the Slovenian People's Party . He kept his seat after the 2000 and 2004 elections and remained so until he resigned in 2007 to exercise his new mayor's office more professionally. In Parliament, Kangler temporarily led the Transport Committee and was part of the Slovenian delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly for ten years .

At the local level, Franc Kangler joined the Maribor City Council in 2002. In 2006 he was surprisingly elected mayor of the second largest city in Slovenia, and in 2010 Kangler won re-election in the first ballot. Already in his first term of office there was controversy over Kangler's administration. Corruption allegations culminated in a police search of the town hall and Kangler's private home and his provisional arrest, but the investigation did not lead to charges. In the budget of the city of Marburg, Kangler is responsible for a 10 million euro deficit, partly caused by the costly renovation of sports facilities such as the Ljudski vrt football stadium . In contrast, culture was not of great importance to the well-known supporter of NK Maribor , although Maribor became European Capital of Culture in 2012 .

On November 26, 2012, around 8,000 demonstrators once again called for the resignation of Mayor Franc Kangler, which led to violent riots. At first he strictly refused to resign from office prematurely, but after further protests announced on December 6th that he would be leaving the mayor's office at the end of the year. The promised resignation followed on December 31st.

However, Kangler wants to remain in the State Council , Slovenia's second parliamentary chamber, into which he was accepted in mid-November 2012. This post gives him political immunity and protects against criminal prosecution, but it was decisive for the following violent civil protests. The Slovenian People's Party had meanwhile excluded Kangler.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Norbert Mappes-Niediek : Portrait of the day: The enemy image in the Marburg town hall . In: Small newspaper . November 29, 2012, p. 9 .
  2. ^ "Maribor is ours": Protest turns into violence. In: The press. November 27, 2012. Retrieved November 30, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Krangler throws in the towel ORF-ON from December 6, 2012
  4. ↑ After the resignation of the mayor, there was no end to the wave of protests. In: derStandard.at. November 27, 2012, accessed December 7, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Kangler, Franc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovenian politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Maribor