Slovenia: National Assembly, 3 June 2018

At stake in this election:  

• The 90 seats in the Slovenian National Assembly (Drzavni Zbor)

Description of government structure:

• Chief of State: President Borut PAHOR (since 22 December 2012)**
• Head of Government: Prime Minister Miro CERAR (announced resignation 15 March 2018)
• Assembly: Slovenia has a bicameral Parliament. The National Council (Drzavni Svet) which has 40 seats and the National Assembly (Drzavni Zbor) has 90 seats.

**The President nominates as Prime Minister the party member he thinks will most likely to be able to assemble a viable government coalition. His candidate then must be approved by the members of the National Assembly

Description of electoral system:

• The President is elected by absolute majority vote through a two-round system to serve a 5-year term.
• The Prime Minister is nominated by the president.
• In the National Council (Drzavni svet) 40 members are elected by an electoral college to serve 5-year terms. In the National Assembly (Drzavni zbor), 88 members are elected through an open-list proportional representation system to serve 4-year terms and 2 members are elected through a Borda Count system to serve 4-year terms.**

** The two members are elected only by registered members of the Italian and Hungarian ethnic minorities.

Election Note:

• On 15 March 2018, Prime Minister Miro CERAR announced his resignation. This came after the Supreme Court annulled a referendum approving a €1 billion government railway project. No replacement has been named yet (as of 14 June 2018).

Political entities in this electoral race:

• PARTY OF MIRO CERAR / PARTY OF MODERN CENTER / POSLANKA SKUPINA STRANKE MODERNEGA CENTRA (SMC)
  • ​Leader: Miro CERAR
  • Seats won in last Assembly elections: 36
• SLOVENIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY/SLOVENSKA DEMOKRATSKA STRANKA (SDS)
  • Leader: Janez JANSA
  • Seats won in last Assembly elections: 21
• SOCIAL DEMOCRATS/ SOCIALNI DEMOKRATI (SD)
  • Leader: Dejan ŽIDAN
  • Seats won in last Assembly elections: 6
• ALLIANCE OF ALENKA BRATUSEK (ZAB)
  • Leader: Alenka BRATUSEK
  • Seats won in last Assembly elections: 4
• CIVIC LIST/DRŽAVLJANSKA LISTA
  • Leader: Bojan STARMAN
  • Seats won in last Assembly elections: 7
• DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF PENSIONERS OF SLOVENIA/DEMOKRATIČNA STRANKA UPOKOJENCEV SLOVENIJE (DeSUS)
  • Seats won in last Assembly elections: 10
• SLOVENIAN PEOPLE’S PARTY/SLOVENSKA LJUDSKA STRANKA (SLS)
  • Seats won in last Assembly elections: 6
• THE LEFT/LEVICA (LEVICA)
  • ​Seats won in last Assembly elections: 6
• NEW SLOVENIA/NOVA SLOVENIJA – KRŠČANSKI DEMOKRATI
  • Seats won in last Assembly elections: 5
• ENAKOPRAVNI DEŽELANI – NAPREJ SLOVENIJA
  • Seats won in last Assembly elections: 0
• KOALICIJA ZDRUŽENA LEVICA (DSD, IDS IN STRANKA TRS)
  • Seats won in last Assembly elections: 0
• SLOVENIAN NATIONAL PARTY/SLOVENSKA NACIONALNA STRANKA (SNS)
  • Seats won in last Assembly elections: 0
• GREENS OF SLOVENIA/ZELENI SLOVENIJE
  • Seats won in last Assembly elections: 0
• PIRATE PARTY/PIRATSKA STRANKA SLOVENIJE
  • Seats won in last Assembly elections: 0
• VERJAMEM
  • Seats won in last Assembly elections: 0
• LIBERALNO GOSPODARSKA STRANKA (LGS)
  • Seats won in last Assembly elections: 0

A list of all parties per electoral areas can be found at: http://www.dvk-rs.si/index.php/si/arhiv-drzavni-zbor-rs/leto-2014-predcasne-volitve

Last election:

• The last election to the National Assembly in Slovenia was held on 13 July 2014. Miro Cerar's Modern Center Party won 36 seats and formed a majority coalition (52 of 90 seats) with the Social Democrats (6 seats) and the Democratic Party of Pensioners (10 seats). The Democratic Party of Slovenia finished second with 21 seats.

Population and Voter Registration:

• Population: 2,061,980 (2014)
• Registered Voters: 1,714,476 (June 2014)

Gender Data:

·         Female Population: 1,039,722 (2014)

·         Is Slovenia a signatory to CEDAW: No

·         Has Slovenia ratified CEDAW: Yes, succession (6 July 1992)

·         Gender Quota: Yes

·         Female candidates in this election: Yes

·         Number of Female Parliamentarians: 29 (following the 2011 elections)

·         Human Development Index Position: 25 (2014)

·         Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) Categorization: Very Low (2014)

Disability Data:

·         Is Slovenia a signatory to CRPD: Yes (30 March 2007)

·         Has Slovenia ratified CRPD: Yes (24 April 2008)

·         Population with a disability: 309,297 (est.)