The candidate of the Social Democrats, who in the campaign presented himself as a candidate of the political center, former Slovenian Prime Minister Borut Pahor, was elected as the new President of Slovenia, since, according to the results of the National Election Commission, he won 2 percent in the second round of the presidential elections on Sunday, December 67,44 votes, and his opponent Danilo Turk 32,56 percent. In the second round of the presidential elections, 718.000 voters, or 41,95 percent, voted according to the snowstorm.
Pahor won in all eight constituencies, most convincingly in Ptuj, where he received 72,44 percent of the vote.
The previous president of Slovenia, Danilo Tirk, admitted defeat in the second round of the presidential elections, but did not analyze the reasons why voters gave a convincing victory to Pahor.
Borut Pahor was born in 1963 and graduated in 1987. In 1989, he took over the leadership of the newly formed group of young communists. At the age of 26, Pahor was once the youngest member of the Central Committee of the Union of Communists of Slovenia and a member of its presidency.
As a delegate, he participated in the last 14th congress of the Union of Communists of Yugoslavia, which the Slovenian delegation left on January 22, 1990. The highest political position he achieved was the position of Prime Minister, which ended in December of last year, when he terminated his mandate prematurely, as the parliament did not vote confidence in her . Then he also lost the position of president of the ZLSD (Union of Liberal Social Democrats of Slovenia, which he held for 15 years, and after the defeat in the elections, he was replaced by his former closest associate Igor Lukšič. ZLSD was renamed Social Democracy in 2005 on Pahor's initiative.
Pahor's government was the third government in the history of Slovenia that did not complete its full mandate. The left-wing party, which was then led by Turk in the parliamentary elections, won third place, but the government was formed by a center-right coalition, and Borut Pahor was left without the position of president in his party. With the success in the elections, Pahor achieved a political hat-trick: he was the only president of the State Assembly (parliament), from 2000-2004, when his party was second in power in Drnovšek's coalition at the time; he was the Prime Minister, and now he will be the President of the State. The Ljubljana Delo reports on his election victory under the title "From Barbie to the President".
He is married to lawyer Tanja Pečar, has a son Luka, actively speaks English and Italian, passively French, plays sports in his spare time.
Both presidential candidates belong to the left political option, which after the first round of elections was divided into the "new left" whose representative is Borut Pahor and the "old left" whose candidate is the current president, Danilo Tirk.
According to some analyses, the departure of Danilo Turk from the presidential post destroys the myth of Milan Kučan's old guard in Slovenian political life. Pahor said in the campaign that "uncles from the background" brought down his government, and his former mentor Milan Kučan felt called out. The positive Slovenia of Ljubljana mayor Zoran Janković supported the Turk.
In the last few weeks, Slovenia has been rocked by large demonstrations due to the difficult economic situation, as a result of which the Slovenian government was forced to introduce severe austerity measures.
