Borut Pahor

Borut Pahor is President of the Republic of Slovenia. He studied at the University of Ljubljana. In 1992 and 1996 he was elected as a deputy to the National Assembly, where he held various roles. In the parliamentary election of 2000, he was elected as a deputy and became President of the National Assembly, then in 2004 he was elected via a preference vote as a Member of the European Parliament. Following the victory of the Social Democrats in the 2008 Parliamentary elections, Pahor was appointed as Prime Minister. He ran in the 2012 Slovenian Presidential Elections and became the President of Slovenia on December 22nd 2012.