Govt Appoints 16 State Secretaries

Ljubljana, 3 December

Holding its maiden session on Friday, the centre-right government of Janez Jansa appointed 13 state secretaries tasked to assist the ministers and 3 state secretaries to work in the cabinet.

The new state secretary in the Finance Ministry has become Bogomir Spiletic, who has previously worked for the Slovenian Chamber of Pharmacy.
Adrijana Kosem Starina, who has experience in capital and investment fund management, was appointed state secretary at the Economics Ministry.
Vinko Gorenak, home policy expert, became the new secretary in the Interior Ministry.
Gorazd Perenic, a business consultant, was appointed deputy minister in the Ministry of Public Administration.
Franci Znidarsic was named state secretary in the Defence Ministry, a post he had already held before.
Bozo Cerar, currently Slovenian ambassador to Warsaw, was appointed the Foreign Ministry state secretary.
Magdalena Sverc, lecturer at the Ljubljana Faculty of Theology, will work for the Ministry of Education and Sports.
Marjeta Cotman, so far working for the parliamentary commission for petitions, was named state secretary at the Ministry of Work, Family and Social Affairs.
Janez Mozina, professor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, will work for the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology.
Dorjan Marusic will keep his post of state secretary at the Ministry of Health.
The new state secretary at the Culture Ministry became Jelka Pirkovic, already the ministry's employee.
Peter Verlic, who has worked as representative of the workers' council at the Slovenian Railways, has become the Transport Ministry state secretary.
Marko Starman, who already worked as state secretary at the Justice Ministry, has now been appointed state secretary at the Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning.
Prime Minister Jansa announced he would name state secretaries at the ministries of agriculture and justice later.
Three state secretaries have been appointed to work for Jansa's cabinet: Pensioners' Party (DeSUS) leader Anton Rous, SDS lawmaker France Puksic and publicist Aleksander Zorn.
Rous is to supervise the implementation of the coalition agreement, Puksic is to run the government office for Slovenians abroad, while Zorn is to preside over the strategic council for culture, education and science.
Mateja Tamara Fajs was named the secretary general of the government.
In addition the government set up a government committee for public affairs, to be run by Education Minister Milan Zver, an economics committee, to be run by Finance Minister Andrej Bajuk, and a personnel and administrative affairs commission, to be presided by the Public Administration Minister Gregor Virant.

Govt Appoints 16 State Secretaries

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