Franc Kangler

Franc Kangler (born 8 July 1965) is a Slovenian politician. He has served as the mayor of Maribor, the second largest town in the country. On 6 December 2012, due to protests, he has stepped down from the position, and left the office on 31 December 2012.

Kangler was born in Maribor, and attended elementary school in Duplek. He continued his studies at the Secondary Police School in Tacen. After that he obtained a first degree in law and is at the moment completing university studies in law at the Faculty of Law at the University of Maribor. He is married and has a daughter.

He was an employee of the Ministry of Interior of Slovenia. In 1995, he became Secretary of the Municipality of Duplek. In 1996, he was elected as a Deputy to the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia for the first time. Currently he is serving his third term of office in that capacity.

Franc Kangler has been a member of the national Commission for the Supervision of the Security and Intelligence Services for ten years. He has also been one of the three members of the Slovenian delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly for ten years. He actively participated in several NATO Assemblies, including the ones in Paris, Copenhagen, Orlando, Ottawa, Warsaw, and Prague, as well as in North Atlantic Assemblies in Luxembourg, Ohrid, Bucharest, and Barcelona.

He is Chairman of the Traffic Committee and a member of the Committee on Domestic Policy of the National Assembly. In 2002 he was elected Maribor City Councillor. He is Chairman of the Local Government Commission. He is also President of the Intermunicipal Football Association of Maribor. In addition to that, he is a member of the governing boards of two Maribor institutions: the Firefighting Division and the Slovene National Theatre in Maribor.

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