Jansa Reveals Ministerial Nominees

Ljubljana, 23 November

Incoming Prime Minister Janez Jansa, the leader of the Slovenian Democrats (SDS), presented his 16 ministerial nominees to the public on Tuesday.

Dimitrij Rupel (SDS) - minister of foreign affairs; foreign minister twice before
Dragutin Mate (SDS) - minister of interior affairs

Andrej Bajuk (NSi) - minister of finance; a finance expert and NSi leader

Karl Erjavec (DeSUS) - minister of defence; currently Justice Ministry state secretary

Lovro Sturm (NSi)- minister of justice; former Constitutional Court judge

Janez Drobnic (NSi) - minister of labour, family and social affairs; NSi vice-president

Andrej Vizjak (SDS) - minister of economics; MP and mayor of Brezice

Marija Lukacic (SDS) - minister of agriculture, food and forestry; currently state undersecretary at the ministry of agriculture

Vasko Simoniti (SDS) - minister of culture; a doctor of history, lecturer at the Faculty of Arts

Milan Zver (SDS) - minister of education and sport; lecturer of sociology at the University of Maribor

Jurij Zupan (NSi) - minister of higher education, science and technology

Andrej Brucan (SDS) - minister of health; a medical doctor, was health minister in the Andrej Bajuk government in 2000

Gregor Virant (SDS) - minister of public administration; has been state secretary for public administration since 2000

Janez Podobnik (SLS) - minister of the environment and spatial planning; SLS leader

Janez Bozic (SLS) - minister of transport; chair of the management board of DARS, Slovenia's motorway company

Darinka Mravljak (SLS) - minister without portfolio forlocal self-government and regional development; agronomist and a former MP

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