English name:

Liberal Democracy of Slovenia

Status:

Member (joined at the Mainz Congress 1992)

Address:

Trg republike 3

1001 Ljubljana

Telephone:

00 386 61 2000 310

00 386 61 2000 322

Fax:

00 386 61 125 61 50

Homepage on the World Wide Web:

http://www.lds.si/

President:

Dr Janez Drnovsek

Secretary-General:

Mr Gregor Golobic

Press Officer:

Natasa Pelku

Chair of Foreign Affairs Committee:

Zoran Thaler

Responsible for Women’s Issues:

Mrs Vera Kozmik

International Relations Secretary:

Roman Jakic

- direct telephone number:

00 386 61 2000 322

- direct email:

romanj@lds.si

Party Newspaper:

"4.000"

- editor:

Natasa Pelku

Foundation or Thinktank:

Liberalna Akademija

- Director:

Pavle Gantar

Date of the last general Elections:

10 November 1996

- Percentage:

27

- Number of seats in parliament:

25/90

- Date of the next general Elections:

Parliamentary: November 2000

Membership:

18000

Parliamentary Group:

Poslanski Klub LDS

Subiceva 4

1000 Ljubljana

- Telephone

00 386 61 125 0351

- Fax

00 386 61 125 2336

Government or Opposition:

In government with the Christian Democrats and Association List of Social Democrats

- Minister(s):

Dr Janez Drnovsek (Prime Minister); Mr Mitja Gaspari (Finance); Dr Slavko Gaber (Education and Sport); Dr Pavel Gantar (Environment); Dr Pavel Gantar (Environment); Dr Boris Erlec (Minister for Foreign Affairs); Mirko Bandelj (Minister for Interior Affairs); Metod Dragonja (Minister for Economics); Jozef Skolc (Minister for Culture); Anton Rop (Minister for Labour and Social Affairs); Igor Bavcar (Minister for European Affairs).