Janez Janša
| Janez Janša | |
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| 6th & 8th Prime Minister of Slovenia | |
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In office 10 February 2012 – 20 March 2013 |
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| President |
Danilo Türk Borut Pahor |
| Preceded by | Borut Pahor |
| Succeeded by | Alenka Bratušek |
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In office 3 December 2004 – 21 November 2008 |
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| President |
Janez Drnovšek Danilo Türk |
| Preceded by | Anton Rop |
| Succeeded by | Borut Pahor |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
17 September 1958 Grosuplje, Yugoslavia (now Slovenia) |
| Political party |
League of Communists (Before 1985) Slovenian Democratic Union (1989–1991) Slovenian Democratic Party (1991–present) |
| Alma mater | University of Ljubljana |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Ivan Janša (Slovene pronunciation: [ˈíːʋan ˈjàːnʃa]; born 17 September 1958), baptized and best known as Janez Janša,[ˈjàːnɛs ˈjàːnʃa] is a Slovenian politician who was Prime Minister of Slovenia from 2004 to 2008 and again from 2012 to 2013. He has led the Slovenian Democratic Party since 1993. Janša was Minister of Defence from 1990 to 1994, holding that post during the Slovenian War of Independence (June–July 1991).
Janša became Prime Minister again in 2012, following an early election in December 2011. On 27 February 2013, Janša's second government was ousted in a vote of non-confidence, and Positive Slovenia's Alenka Bratušek was tasked to form a new government. On 5 June 2013, Janša was sentenced to two years in prison on corruption charges. The ruling was confirmed by Slovenia's higher court on 28 April 2014 and unanimously overturned by the Constitutional Court of Slovenia on 23 April 2015.
Born to a Roman Catholic working-class family of Grosuplje, he was called Janez (a version of the same name, known as John in English) since childhood. His father was a member of the Slovenian Home Guard from Dobrova near Ljubljana who had escaped Communist retaliation due to his young age. Janša graduated from the University of Ljubljana with a degree in Defence Studies in 1982, and became a trainee in the Defence Secretariate of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia. In his younger years, when being a communist was advantageous for career, he was a member of the League of Communists and one of the leaders of its youth wing. He became president of the Committee for Basic People's Defence and Social Self-Protection of the Alliance of Socialist Youth of Slovenia (ZSMS).
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