Tomaž Gantar

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Tomaž Gantar (2013)

Tomaž Gantar (born March 21, 1960 in Koper ) is a Slovenian doctor and politician of the Democratic Pensioners Party of Slovenia (DeSUS). From February 2012 to November 2013 he was Minister of Health in his country. He held this office again from March 13, 2020 to December 18, 2020.

Life

Gantar graduated from the University of Ljubljana with a degree in medicine in 1987 and trained as a specialist in urology until 1994 . He then took a job at the General Hospital in Izola . In 1999 he became deputy director of the house and in 2004 its general director.

From 2006 to 2010 Gantar was mayor of the city of Piran ; at the same time he continued to work as a urologist at the hospital in Izola. On February 10, 2012, he was sworn in as Slovenian Minister of Health on the proposal of Prime Minister Janez Janša . On February 22, 2013, Gantar resigned from this office. The background for this decision were allegations of corruption against Prime Minister Janša, who, according to the authorities, could not explain the origin of 210,000 euros on his private account. Since Janša refused to resign, the Ministers for Justice and Finance, Senko Pličanič and Janez Šušteršič, left his cabinet on January 24, 2013. Together with Gantar, his party colleague, Foreign Minister Karl Erjavec , resigned in protest.

After Janša was overthrown by a vote of no confidence, the new Prime Minister Alenka Bratušek presented a new cabinet on March 20, 2013, to which Gantar belonged again as Health Minister. He announced his resignation on November 25, 2013, as disagreements within the government made it impossible for him to implement health care reforms.

From 2014 to 2018 Gantar chaired the Health Committee of the Slovenian Parliament. In the four-party coalition, which was again led by Janez Janša, Gantar acted again as health minister from March 13, 2020. After Gantar's Pensioners' Party (DeSUS), the coalition's smallest party, had left Prime Minister Janša's government the day before, Gantar resigned as Minister of Health on December 18, 2020. For the time being, the Prime Minister himself will assume his duties.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Government crisis in Slovenia: Minister of Health resigned. ORF , December 18, 2020, accessed on December 19, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Center-right government confirmed by parliament Der Standard, February 10, 2012
  3. ^ Slovenia on the Abyss ( Memento from July 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Süddeutsche Zeitung, February 23, 2013
  4. ↑ Neuradno: Vladna ekipa Alenke Bratušek na prvi svoji Seji tudi o dokumentu "očiščenja" ( Memento of 28 June 2013 Internet Archive ) Demokracija, March 21, 2013
  5. ↑ http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/11/29/uk-slovenia-corruption-idUKBRE9AS0FW20131129
  6. ↑ www.gov.si - Tomaž Gantar, dr. med., minister za zdravje. Retrieved December 18, 2020 (Slovenian).

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personal data
SURNAME Gantar, Tomaž
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovenian medic and politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Twill