Alenka Bratušek
| Alenka Bratušek | |
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| 9th Prime Minister of Slovenia | |
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In office 20 March 2013 – 18 September 2014 |
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| President | Borut Pahor |
| Preceded by | Janez Janša |
| Succeeded by | Miro Cerar |
| Leader of Positive Slovenia | |
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In office 17 January 2013 – 25 April 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Zoran Janković |
| Succeeded by | Zoran Janković |
| Personal details | |
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31 March 1970 Celje, Yugoslavia (now Slovenia) |
| Political party |
Liberal Democracy (Before 2008) Zares (2008–2010) Hermina Krt's List (2010–2011) Positive Slovenia (2011–2014) Alliance of Alenka Bratušek (2014–present) |
| Alma mater | University of Ljubljana |
Alenka Bratušek (pronounced [aˈleːŋka ˈbɾaːtuʃək]; born 31 March 1970) is a Slovenian public servant. She was Prime Minister of Slovenia from March 2013 until May 2014, the first woman in Slovenia to hold this position. She was president pro tempore of the Positive Slovenia party from January 2013 until April 2014. On 5 May 2014, Bratušek submitted her resignation as Prime Minister.
Bratušek was born in Celje. She studied at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technology at the University of Ljubljana. Continuing her studies at the university of Ljubljana, she went on to obtain a master's degree in management at the Faculty for Social Sciences. Before entering politics, she served for six years as head of the Directorate for the State Budget at the Ministry of Finance.
In March 2013, an anonymous person criticized Bratušek because she had not cited a source on one page of her master's thesis. Her work has 88 pages with 34 listed sources, but journalists only counted 11 used-ones; among it were also internal documents of company Javni gospodarski zavod Brdo, where she was member and later president of Managing Board.Slovenske novice journalists also went through her work and wrote, that Bratušek plagiarized one page from work of another author (regarding Gøsta Esping-Andersen's classification of welfare) without proper citation. Her Alma-mater, Faculty for Social Sciences, started an investigation regarding alleged plagiarism. Investigating commission concluded that "Bratušek in her master's thesis had used works of other authors contrary to current citatation methods, but based on critically evaluation of collected material and sources it can not be expertly and scientifically established, that thesis in important part is not a result of her work".
In 2006 she ran in local elections on the list of the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia (LDS) and was elected to the city council of Kranj. In 2008, Bratušek unsuccessfully ran for Parliament on the list of the Social Liberal party Zares. On the next local elections, in 2010, she switched allegiance, this time to Hermina Krt's List (Lista Hermine Krt) and was once again elected to Kranj's city council. In the 2011 early parliamentary elections, she was elected on the list of the Positive Slovenia party. During her parliamentary tenure she was the chairperson of the parliamentary Committee for Budget Control.
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