Positive Slovenia
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Positive Slovenia
Pozitivna Slovenija |
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| Leader | Zoran Janković |
| Founder | Zoran Janković |
| Founded | 22 October 2011 |
| Headquarters | Ljubljana |
| Ideology |
Liberalism Social liberalism Social democracy |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| European affiliation | None |
| Slovenian National Assembly |
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| European Parliament |
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| Website | |
| http://pozitivnaslovenija.si/ | |
Positive Slovenia (Slovene: Pozitivna Slovenija, PS) is a centre-leftpolitical party in Slovenia, since April 2014 led by Zoran Janković. The party was founded under the name Zoran Janković's List – Positive Slovenia. It was renamed to Positive Slovenia in its second congress, held on 21 January 2012.
On 11 October 2011, Janković, then mayor of Ljubljana, announced that he would participate in the early parliamentary election, following the fall of the government of Prime Minister Borut Pahor. The charter of the new party was enacted on 22 October 2011, where Janković was unanimously elected president. Among the party's supporters were National Assembly members Matjaž Zanoškar, Cveta Zalokar Oražem, and Renata Brunskole.Milan Kučan, the first President of Slovenia, also expressed his support, citing Janković's work as the chairman of the retailing chain, Mercator, and as the mayor of Ljubljana.
Among the goals of the party that Janković emphasised were a secure, social and efficient state with a 4% GDP growth rate and less than 3% budget deficit. Janković stated that his goal was to place Slovenia among the most successful countries in the world.
Positive Slovenia won 28.51% of the vote, thus gaining 28 parliamentary seats at the early Slovenian 2011 parliamentary election: the most of all participating political parties. Janković was favourite to become Prime Minister, and Positive Slovenia led coalition negotiations, primarily with the Social Democrats (SD), Gregor Virant's Civic List (LGV), and DeSUS. A preliminary coalition agreement was reached, but LGV withdrew two days later and endorsed a Slovenian Democratic Party-led centre-right government, leaving Positive Slovenia in opposition.
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