Zoran Janković (politician)

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Zoran Janković (2008)

Zoran Janković (born January 1, 1953 in Saraorci , Yugoslavia , today part of the municipality of Smederevo , Serbia ) is a Slovenian manager and politician. He has been the mayor of Ljubljana since 2006 . [outdated]

Life

Janković is the son of a Serb and a Slovenian and grew up in poor conditions in the Serbian village of Saraorci. At the age of 11 he moved to Ljubljana and did not initially speak Slovenian. After studying at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Ljubljana , he became head of the Slovenian retail chain Mercator in 1997 , until he was finally dismissed in 2005. In 2006 he successfully ran for the office of mayor of Ljubljana as an independent . He was confirmed in office in the 2010 local elections.

In the early parliamentary election on December 4, 2011 , he joined the party Lista Zorana Jankovića - Pozitivna Slovenija ( List Zoran Janković - Positive Slovenia ), which had been founded two months earlier and is classified as center-left in the political spectrum. This immediately became the strongest force in parliament and received 28.5% of the vote. Janković himself also won a parliamentary mandate. However, he failed to form a coalition government, so on January 28, 2012 Janez Janša , chairman of the second-placed Slovene Democratic Party (SDS), was elected prime minister of a center-right government with four smaller parties.

In the new elections in March 2012, Janković was re-elected to the office of Mayor of Ljubljana and took office on April 11, 2012. At the end of 2012 he had to resign as party leader because of corruption allegations, but did not have to answer to court. The longstanding corruption allegations did not damage his popularity as an assertive mayor.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Mayor, City of Ljubljana. In: ljubljana.si. Retrieved August 9, 2017 .
  2. ^ A b Zoran Jankovic overthrows the Slovenian government Der Standard of April 27, 2014.
  3. ^ Janković Sworn In as Ljubljana Mayor Again . In: English Service: News , Slovenian Press Agency, April 11, 2012. 
  4. ↑ Mobility revolution with blemishes. orf.at of September 6, 2015.

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personal data
SURNAME Janković, Zoran
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovenian manager and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Saraorci at Smederevo