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Janez Janša
Ivan Janša, better known as Janez Janša, is a Slovenian politician who has served as Prime Minister of Slovenia since 2026, a position he previously held from 2004 to 2008, from 2012 to 2013 and from 2020 to 2022. Since 1993, Janša has led the Slovenian Democratic Party, which has emerged as the pre-eminent Slovenian right-wing party.
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politics · Slovenian politician (born 1958) · politician · also Janez Janša, Ivan Janez Janša, Janez (Ivan) Janša, Janša
Born 17 September 1958 · Q57627
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2026· 10 entries
Večer: Janez Janša ob Marijinem vnebovzetju: Krščanske vrednote so naš civilizacijski temelj
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Dnevnik: Janez Janša in Luka Mesec v hribih, Blaž Švab z novo kosilnico, Katja Kokot vlaga ozimnico
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Večer: Premier Janez Janša je delil zapis Resnice o RTV Slovenija
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MLADINA.si: »Janez Janša ni strateški genij«
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MLADINA.si: Premier Janez Janša spet krivi levičarje
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Public attention spiked: 4,550 Wikipedia readers in one day, 9.6× the usual 475, with 6 article edits. Editors noted: Reverting possible vandalism by ~2026-33491-15 to version by SteveCentra. Report False Positive? Thanks, ClueBot NG. (4527184) (Bot)
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Public attention spiked: 4,151 Wikipedia readers in one day, 8.7× the usual 475, with 4 article edits. Coverage that week: “Right-wing Janez Janša elected as new Slovenian prime minister” (Yahoo).
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Yahoo: Right-wing Janez Janša elected as new Slovenian prime minister
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Slovenia (2026).
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2025· 1 entry
rtvslo.si: Janez Janša edini kandidat za predsednika SDS-a
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2022· 3 entries
Politico Europe: Janez Janša suffers heavy defeat as newcomer party wins Slovenian election
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And also supports sanctions against Russia and increased military aid to Ukraine
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Career landmark: Member of the National Assembly of Slovenia (2022).
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2020· 2 entries
The Guardian: Slovenia's PM Janša channels Orbán with attacks on media and migrants
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Slovenia (2020–2022).
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2018· 1 entry
Career landmark: Member of the National Assembly of Slovenia (2018–2020).
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2014· 2 entries
Career landmark: Member of the National Assembly of Slovenia (2014).
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Career landmark: Member of the National Assembly of Slovenia (2014–2014).
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2012· 3 entries
rtvslo.si: Za film Jaz sem Janez Janša je 181 ljudi prispevalo več kot 7.000 evrov
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Following an early election in December 2011
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Slovenia (2012–2013).
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2008· 3 entries
Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun of Peru (2008).
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It was reported by the newspaper Mladina that Janez Janša copied a speech by Tony Blair, the prime minister of the United Kingdom
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Career landmark: Member of the National Assembly of Slovenia (2008–2012).
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2006· 1 entry
For the ceremony on the 15th anniversary of the Slovenian declaration of independence
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2004· 1 entry
Career landmark: Prime Minister of Slovenia (2004–2008).
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2003· 1 entry
Drnovšek headed a round table on Slovenia's future based on Janša's recommendations
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2000· 3 entries
When it entered a short-lived centre-right government led by Andrej Bajuk,
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Career landmark: Member of the National Assembly of Slovenia (2000–2004).
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Career landmark: Minister of Defence (2000–2000).
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1996· 1 entry
Parliamentary elections, Janša's party's vote share rose significantly, from around 3
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1995· 1 entry
Janša was charged for alleged illegal arms trafficking, but the case was never brought to trial
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1994· 4 entries
Career landmark: Member of the National Assembly of Slovenia (1994–1999).
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Janez Janša was dismissed by Prime Minister Janez Drnovšek from his role as Defence Minister because of his involvement in the Depala Vas affair (which centered around an incident in which military personnel arrested and
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Performing military exercises intended to prepare the force to carry out a military coup d'état
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When they were deposing me, there was a lot of suggestions that we not accept this removal
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1992· 2 entries
And subsequently translated into English under the title "The Making of the Slovenian State") and Okopi ("Barricades", 1994), in which he exposes his personal views on the problems of Slovenia's transition from communism
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When the Slovenian Democratic Union broke into a liberal and a conservative wing, the leaders of the liberal fraction wanted to propose Janša as the compromise president of the party, but he refused the offer
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1990· 2 entries
Career landmark: Member of the National Assembly of Slovenia (1990–1992).
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Career landmark: Minister of Defence (1990–1994).
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1989· 2 entries
Janša was involved in the founding of one of the first opposition parties in Slovenia, the Slovenian Democratic Union (SDZ) and became its first vice-president, and later president of the Party Council
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For the first time in Mladina, was re-told in detail as if it has been experienced by Janša's father
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1987· 1 entry
Janša was approached by the family of the late politician Stane Kavčič, who had been the most important exponent of the reformist fraction in the Slovenian Communist Party in the late 1960s, and prime minister of Sloveni
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1986· 1 entry
And, a year later, to again begin publishing in Mladina
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1983· 2 entries
Janša wrote the first of his dissident articles about the nature of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA)
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After breaking with Yugoslav military orthodoxy by criticizing the system of people's self-defense from a radical left perspective
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1982· 1 entry
And became employed in the Defence Secretariate of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia
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1975· 1 entry
Aged 17, Janša joined the League of Communists, and became one of the leaders of its youth wing
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1958· 1 entry
Born 1958-09-17.
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