Tuerk Calls General Election for 21 September
President Danilo Tuerk singed on Monday a decree on the 2008 general election, setting 21 September as the date of the election. The election will officially be called on 30 June, which will also be the date launching the preparations for the vote, Tuerk said today.
Tuerk told the press after signing the decree that the general election was an important, possibly the most important instrument of democracy.
"Its purpose is to elect the most appropriate ones, and all our development in the history of democratic Slovenia is related to this election," Turk said, adding that this would also be the case in the future.
The president believes that the period ahead of the election is also "a mirror of the political culture of our society". This is why he wants the election campaign to be based on arguments and hopes that the election turnout will be as high as possible.
The election campaign ahead of the autumn general election will officially be launched on 22 August, a month before the election Sunday. Candidates have until 27 August to register for the vote.
This year's general election will be the fifth since Slovenia's independence. The last election at which the fourth seating of the 90-member parliament was elected was held on 3 October 2004.
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