Janez Janša

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Janez Janša (2018)

Ivan Janez Janša [ ˈjaːnɛz ˈjaˑnʃɐ ] (born September 17, 1958 in Ljubljana ) is a Slovenian politician, chairman of the Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) since 1993 and Prime Minister of Slovenia since March 13, 2020 , which he had been from 2004 to 2008 and from 2012 to 2013 was.

Political career

In the 1980s Janša was active in the communist youth organization of Slovenia ZSMS and published articles critical of the regime in their magazine Mladina . These activities culminated in the Ljubljana trial of Janša, the military officer Borštner and the two journalists Tasić and Zavrl in 1988 . At the end of the trial, Janez Janša was sentenced to 18 months in prison .

Janša was involved in the founding of the first well-known Slovenian opposition party, the Slovenian Democratic Union (SDZ), in 1989 and was then deputy chairman of this party. After the election victory of the election platform DEMOS in the first free elections in 1990, Janša became Minister of Defense and in this function was the commander of the Slovenian army during the Slovenian War of Independence in 1991 . After the DEMOS coalition collapsed (1992), Janša remained Minister of Defense and in 1992 joined the Social Democratic Party of Slovenia (SDS) Jože Pučniks . He had to resign in 1994 because of the Depala vas affair, in which he allegedly abused his ministerial powers .

In 1993 he became party leader of the SDS, which renamed itself to the Slovenian Democratic Party in 2003 and changed its orientation towards liberal - conservative , market-economy and pro-western positions.

On October 3, 2004, he and his party gained around 30% of the vote in the Slovenian parliamentary elections, making them the strongest force in the Slovenian parliament. In the subsequent elections on September 21, 2008, however, the governing coalition lost the parliamentary majority to the alliance led by the Social Democrats .

In the early parliamentary elections in December 2011, the SDS was the second strongest political force after the newly founded Pozitivna Slovenija party . Janša managed to form a center-right coalition with four smaller parties; he was elected on January 28, 2012 to succeed Borut Pahors as the new Prime Minister of Slovenia. A year later he lost the post after allegations of corruption.

In the parliamentary election in 2018 the SDS strongest party. Janša did not find enough coalition partners. After Prime Minister Marjan Šarec resigned in January 2020 and sought a new election, Janša managed to form a coalition of four parties (SDS, SMC , NSi and DeSUS ). On March 13, 2020, he became Prime Minister for the third time.

Positions

Janša repeatedly questioned that global warming in the context of climate change was man-made.

He also advocates the right of Slovenian citizens to carry firearms .

criticism

Corruption allegations

Because of his possible involvement in a bribe affair related to the procurement of 135 Patria AMV wheeled armored vehicles for the Slovenian army during his tenure as Prime Minister , Janša had to answer to court since August 2011. He was investigated in connection with the Patria affair in three EU countries.

In 2013 Janša lost the majority in parliament in the face of corruption investigations. His ruling coalition broke up; Most recently, the governing parties only controlled 30 of the 90 seats in parliament. On February 27, 2013, the Slovenian parliament expressed suspicion to Janša . It elected Alenka Bratušek as the new Prime Minister. Until the formation of a new government by Bratušek (Bratušek's cabinet ), the previous government remained provisionally in office.

On June 5, 2013, Janša was sentenced to two years in prison by a court in Ljubljana. He appealed the judgment to the Supreme Court. This confirmed the judgment on April 28, 2014. On June 20, 2014, he began his prison sentence; from then on he could not participate in the election campaign for the parliamentary elections in Slovenia on July 13, 2014. The Constitutional Court took up the matter and on December 12, 2014 suspended Janša's detention pending its decision. In April 2015, it decided that the process should be repeated. All defendants were denied rights because the evidence in the lower courts was incomplete. Janša was also denied a fair trial by one of the Supreme Court judges because of bias. The limitation period for the allegations expired in 2015.

Relationship to the Slovenian Identitarian Movement

Janša shared several posts on Twitter by the Slovenian identity movement Generacija identitete , including in 2019 their declaration of support for the Austrian identity chief Martin Sellner , who was under attack for an alleged donation by the far-right terrorist in Christchurch . In addition, there were several joint public appearances by SDS politicians and identities.

Private life

Janša has a son and a daughter with his former partner Silva Predalič. Since July 2009 he has been married to the 20 years younger doctor Urška Bačovnik, with whom he had been in a relationship since autumn 2006. Their son was born in August 2011. Janez Janša is said to have a friendship with Viktor Orbán .

Web links

Commons : Janez Janša  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ http://www.delo.si/novice/politika/predsednik-vlade-ivan-ali-janez-jansa.html
  2. ↑ a b c d Keno Verseck, DER SPIEGEL: Janez Janša becomes new head of government: The Orbánisierung of Slovenia - DER SPIEGEL - Politics. Retrieved March 9, 2020 .
  3. ↑ BZZ: A mature Slovenian rebel
  4. ↑ Der Standard : Janez Jansa elected new Prime Minister , January 28, 2012.
  5. ^ Die Presse: Slovenian center-right government confirmed in parliament
  6. ↑ Ex-Prime Minister Jansa indicted (wienerzeitung.at, August 27, 2011, accessed on September 20, 2011)
  7. ↑ Finnish investigator charges Slovenia's ex-prime minister Jansa (derstandard.at, September 11, 2011, accessed on September 20, 2011)
  8. ^ Neue Zürcher Zeitung : Janez Jansa as a survivor , February 15, 2013.
  9. ^ Neue Zürcher Zeitung : Slovenia's opposition overthrows Prime Minister Jansa , February 27, 2013.
  10. ↑ Janša to "Fight to the End", Says Conviction Political (June 5, 2013)
  11. ↑ Slovenia: prison sentence against former Prime Minister Janša , the press, online edition June 5, 2013
  12. ^ Slovenian court confirms jail sentence for ex-PM Jansa
  13. ↑ FAZ.net December 12, 2014: Imprisonment for Slovenia's opposition leader suspended
  14. ^ Slovenian Constitutional Court releases Janez Janša
  15. ↑ Supreme Court orders new process - Slovenci reports. In: volksgruppen.orf.at. Retrieved August 3, 2017 .
  16. ^ Slovenian ÖVP sister party with sympathy for identitarians. In: diepresse.com, April 3, 2019, last accessed on March 5, 2020.
  17. ↑ Urška Bačovnik in Janez Janša pričakujeta naraščaj? (www.siol.net, July 20, 2009, accessed February 24, 2012)
  18. ^ Rodil se je Črtomir Janša (Slovenske Novice, August 18, 2011, accessed on February 24, 2012)
personal data
SURNAME Janša, Janez
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Janša, Ivan (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovenian politician
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Ljubljana