60 Years Since First Post-WWII Slovenian Government
Sixty years ago, to the day, the first post-WWII Slovenian government was formed in the town of Ajdovscina, south-west.
The Slovenian National Liberation Council (SNOS) passed a law on a new Slovenian government and endorsed the cabinet on 5 May 1945 in Ajdovscina, in the region of Primorsko.
Ajdovscina was chosen because the National Liberation Movement wanted to show the world to which country Primorsko, which came under the Italian rule after WWI, belongs.
The mandate to form the government was given by the SNOS to Boris Kidric, apart from Edvard Kardelj one of the leading Slovenian communist officials.
Franc Snoj from the People's Party took over the Ministry of Transport, and was the only one in the new government who was a minister even before the war.
The only female minister in the cabinet was Vida Tomsic, in charge of social policy. Other ministers were Marijan Brecelj, Ferdo Kozak, Ales Bebler, Janez Hribar and Marijan Ahcin.
Historians cannot agree whether the Ajdovscina government was the first Slovenian government. According to many, the first one was formed at the end of WWI on 29 October 1918 in Ljubljana.
The historians who met in the hall where the Ajdovscina government held its first session on Tuesday emphasised that this government had a symbolic rather than political role.
Its jurisdiction was limited, as it could only take decisions in the fields of education, science, social affairs, health and culture.
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