Anton Rop (born 27 December 1960) is a

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n politician. He was

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, from 2002 to 2004. Until 2005 he was also the president of the Liberal Democratic Party (Liberalna Demokracija Slovenije – LDS), the legal successor of the Slovenian Association of Socialist Youth. On 20 March 2007 he left the party and joined the

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. In 2010, he was appointed a vice-president of the

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. Rop was born in

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. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics in Ljubljana in 1984. In 1991, he was admitted to the

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, with a thesis on state expenditure and

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. From 1985 to 1992 he was Assistant Director of the Slovenian Institute for Macroeconomic Analysis and Development, where he also headed

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s for the projects of fiscal informatics and

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infrastructure Infrastructure is the set of facilities and systems that serve a country, city, or other area, and encompasses the services and facilities necessary for its economy, households and firms to function. Infrastructure is composed of public and pri ...

and tackled Slovenia's developmental problems. He has written numerous articles about

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and housing topics. In his capacity as assistant director of the Institute and advisor to the government he started working in the field of

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and

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drafting as early as 1992. In 1993 he was appointed State Secretary at the Ministry of Economic Relations and Development, charged with privatisation and regional development. Between 1996 and 2000 he held the office of Minister of Labour, Family and Social Affairs. Following

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s to the

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at the end of 2000 he was appointed

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. He performed this function until December 19, 2002 when he was elected

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. He came into conflict with President Janez Drnovšek, though they are from the same party. His government lost the October 2004 elections, and he relinquished the post of Prime Minister on November 9, 2004 when

Janez Janša Ivan Janša (; born 17 September 1958), better known as Janez Janša (), is a Slovenian politician who served three times as a prime minister of Slovenia, a position he had held from 2004 to 2008, from 2012 to 2013, and from 2020 to 2022. Since ...

was elected. He was member of

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until August 2010, when he became vice-president of the

References

External links

Official Website to The Prime Minister of the Slovenia Republic
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