Milos Budin of the Left Democrats will be the first ever member of the Slovenian minority in Italy to get a post in the Italian government. Budin, 56, was on Wednesday appointed an undersecretary at the Ministry of International Trade and European Affairs.
At the parliamentary elections in 2001, Budin was elected to the Italian Senate as a member of the centre-left Olive Tree coalition.
He was elected several times to the Friuli-Venezia Giulia regional parliament, where he was also one of its deputy speakers, and held the post of mayor of the Zgonik (Sgonico) municipality near the city of Trieste.
Entering politics in 1968 as a student activist, Budin joined the Italian Communist Party in 1972 and took part in its reorganisation into the Left Democrats in the 1990s.
Budin is also a member of the regional council of the Slovenian Cultural and Economic Association (SKGZ), one of the umbrella organisations of the Slovenian minority in Italy.
He attended Slovenian primary and secondary schools in Trieste, graduated in history from a Trieste faculty with a thesis on the rights of Slovenians in the time of Allied Military Government in the Trieste area.
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