Rajko Pirnat (born March 24, 1951, in

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) is a Slovenian politician, lawyer and academic. From May 16, 1990, to May 14, 1992, he was the

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for

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as a member of the

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. In that role, he introduced a denationalization act to undo some of the damage caused by unjust post-war expropriations from 1945 to 1963. When his party split, he led the new center-right National Democratic Party, but it fared very poorly in the 1992 Slovenian presidential and

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elections. He is a law professor at the

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and a former dean of its faculty of law. On March 23, 2005, he was appointed to the Joint Supervisory Board of

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as Slovenia's representative and served as its chair from January to June 2008; he was still a member as of 2013.

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