The Government Office for Local Government and Regional Policy sent to deputy groups on Monday five draft bills that deal with establishing provinces. The documents propose that the country be divided into 14 provinces.
The legislation package envisages that municipalities take part in establishing provinces. Bordering municipalities will be able to hold a referendum on which province they would want to belong to, but only if their inclusion into another province would not substantially impact the proposed area of the province.
The deputy groups have until 23 March to submit their proposals on the four bills (on provinces, on regional elections, on financing and on the establishment procedure) and a draft bill on the provinces.
The draft bill requires a two-thirds majority of all present MPs and defines the area, names and seats of the provinces.
The bill anticipates the following provinces and their seats: Zasavsko (Trbovlje), Notranjsko (Postojna), Savinjsko - Salesko (Velenje), Spodnje Podravsko (Ptuj), Posavsko (Krsko), Korosko (Slovenj Gradec), Primorsko (Koper), Dolenjsko (Novo mesto), Gorisko (Nova Gorica), Pomursko (Murska Sobota), Gorenjsko (Kranj), Podravsko (Maribor), Savinjsko (Celje) and Osrednjeslovensko (Ljubljana).
The provinces vary in size and population from the smallest provinces of Zasavsko with 46,000 inhabitants to the largest provinces of Osrednjeslovensko with 498,000 people.
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