Lojze Peterle
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Lojze Peterle MEP |
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| Member of the European Parliament | |
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Assumed office 1 July 2004 |
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| Constituency | Slovenia |
| Prime Minister of Slovenia | |
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In office 16 May 1990 – 14 May 1992 |
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| President | Milan Kučan |
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| Preceded by | Dušan Šinigoj |
| Succeeded by | Janez Drnovšek |
| Leader of the Christian Democrats | |
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In office 19 January 1990 – 14 April 2000 |
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| Deputy | Jože Mencinger |
| Preceded by | New office |
| Succeeded by | Office abolished |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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In office 7 June 2000 – 30 November 2000 |
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| Prime Minister | Andrej Bajuk |
| Preceded by | Dimitrij Rupel |
| Succeeded by | Dimitrij Rupel |
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In office 25 January 1993 – 31 October 1994 |
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| Prime Minister | Janez Drnovšek |
| Preceded by | Dimitrij Rupel |
| Succeeded by | Zoran Thaler |
| Member of the National Assembly | |
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In office 22 June 1996 – 1 July 2004 |
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| Personal details | |
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Alojz Lojze Peterle 5 July 1948 Čužnja Vas, Yugoslavia (now Slovenia) |
| Political party |
 SloveneNew Slovenia  EUEuropean People's Party |
| Other political affiliations |
Christian Democrats (Before 2000) People’s Party (2000) |
| Alma mater | University of Ljubljana |
| Website | www |
Alojz "Lojze" Peterle (born 5 July 1948) is a Slovenian politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Slovenia. He is a member of New Slovenia, part of the European People's Party. He served as Prime Minister of Slovenia from 1990 to 1992, Leader of the Christian Democrats from the founding of the party in 1990 until it merged with the Slovenian People's Party in 2000 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1993 to 1994 and 2000. He was a Member of the National Assembly from 1996 to 2004.
Lojze Peterle was born to a peasant family in the Lower Carniolan village of Čužnja vas near Trebnje. He attended the Novo Mesto Grammar School. In 1967, he enrolled in the University of Ljubljana, where he studied history and geography, and later also economy. During his student years, he started collaborating with the Christian left intellectual circle around the journal Revija 2000.
In the 1980s, Peterle started working at the Institute for Urban planning of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia. In the mid-1980s, he was involved in several projects of trans-regional cooperation within the Alpe-Adria regional cooperation network.
In 1990, he was elected president of the newly founded Slovene Christian Democrats.
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