Gregor Virant's Civic List
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Civic List
Državljanska lista |
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|---|---|
| Leader | Bojan Starman |
| Founded | 21 October 2011 |
| Ideology |
Liberalism Classical liberalism |
| Political position |
Centre to Centre-right |
| European affiliation | Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe |
| International affiliation | None |
| European Parliament group | No MEPs |
| National Assembly |
0 / 90
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| European Parliament |
0 / 8
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| Website | |
| http://www.d-l.si | |
Civic List (Slovene: Državljanska lista, DL) is a liberal and classical liberal extra-parliamentary political party in Slovenia, led by Gregor Virant. LGV won 8.37% of the vote at the early 2011 Slovenian parliamentary election on 4 December 2011, thus gaining 8 seats in the National Assembly. After a quit of its deputy group by one of its deputies in April 2012, it has had 7 seats. Until April 2012 the party was named Gregor Virant's Civic List (Državljanska lista Gregorja Viranta, LGV).
Virant, former Minister of Public Administration in Janez Janša's government between 2004–2008 and chairman of the civil platform Rally for the Republic (Slovene: Zbor za republiko) announced on 10 October 2011, that he would form a list to participate in the early parliamentary election, following the fall of the government of Borut Pahor.
The party was officially chartered on 21 October 2011 in Ljubljana. Among the supporters of the party is the entrepreneur and owner of Pipistrel company Ivo Boscarol, who stated he will not join the party but will help as an expert counsellor, and the economist and Liberal activist Rado Pezdir. The public intellectual Peter Jambrek and jurist Tone Jerovšek, both former members of the Constitutional Court of Slovenia and prominent members of the Rally for the Republic, also voiced their support for Virant's political project.
When the party was formed, some of the prominent members were economist Janez Šušteršič, former director of the Slovenian governmental Institute of Macroeconomic Analysis and Development between 2001 and 2007, former chairman of the Office for the Protection of Competition Jani Soršak, former Minister of Transport and former vice-president of the National Assembly Marko Pavliha (who had been a member of the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia between 2004-2007). In January 2012, Pavliha left the party. In the beginning of April, the deputy Ivan Vogrin left the deputy group of the party in the National Assembly after the party reproached him for the debts created by his private company. He has remained member of the party, though.
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