Prime Minister Janez Jansa on Friday nominated Ivan Zagar, currently mayor of Slovenska Bistrica, as the minister without portfolio in charge of regional development and local self-government. Zagar is to undergo a hearing in front of the relevant parliamentary committee within seven days.
Zagar, a member of the centre-right People's Party (SLS), has been put forward as the nominee instead of Darinka Mravljak (SLS), who withdrew her candidacy, under public pressure for her involvement in a real-estate scandal, before parliament took a vote on Jansa's line-up last week.
Born in 1962 in Maribor, Zagar has doctor's degree in technical sciences from the University of Maribor, where he used to work. He specialised at the Paul Scherer Institute in Switzerland and at the Wessex Institute of Technology in the UK.
He has been mayor of Slovenska Bistrica, a municipality in northeastern Slovenia, since 1994, and has been an alternate member of the EU Committee of the Regions since Slovenia became a full-fledged EU member state in May.
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