| Cabinet Name: | Šarec Cabinet |
| Cabinet Number: | 13th |
| Jurisdiction: | Republic of Slovenia |
| Flag: | Flag_of_Slovenia.svg |
| Flag Border: | true |
| Government Head: | Prime Minister Marjan Šarec (LMŠ) |
| Deputy Government Head: | Deputy Prime Ministers: Miro Cerar (SMC) Alenka Bratušek (SAB) Karl Erjavec (DeSUS) Jernej Pikalo (SD) Andrej Bertoncelj (LMŠ) |
| State Head: | Borut Pahor |
| Members Number: | 16 (2 of them without portfolio) |
| Former Members Number: | 5 |
| Total Number: | 21 |
| Opposition Cabinet: | None |
| Opposition Leader: | not an official position
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| Election: | 2018 election |
| Legislature Term: | 8th National Assembly |
| Budget: | State budget (1 of 4 public budgets; excluding municipalities budgets, ZPIZ and ZZZS) 2018: 9.625 billion € (1.03%) 2019: 10.160 billion € (5.56%) 2020: 10.350 billion € (1.87%) 2021: 10.455 billion € (1.01%) |
| Previous: | Cerar Cabinet |
| Successor: | Janša III Cabinet |
The 13th Government of Slovenia was elected on 13 September 2018 by the 8th National Assembly. It is the first minority government in the history of Slovenia. On 27 January 2020, following the resignation of the Minister of Finance Andrej Bertoncelj, Prime Minister Marjan Šarec announced his resignation. The National Assembly was informed on the same day following which the term of the 13th Government ended.[1] Šarec is the third consecutive and in total fourth Prime Minister to resign, before him Miro Cerar, Alenka Bratušek and Janez Drnovšek resigned as well, the latter due to being elected President of the Republic. The 13th Government is the fifth consecutive and eighth government in total to not finish its term.
After the 3 June 2018 parliamentary elections, Marjan Šarec, leader of LMŠ, began coalition talks with SD, SMC, SAB and DeSUS. Shortly after that New Slovenia (NSi) joined the talks in order to become the sixth coalition party and ensure a parliamentary majority of at least 46 votes. The newly elected National Assembly held its first session on 22 June 2018 and that meant the first round of the election of Prime Minister began. NSi withdrew from coalition talks on 16 July, close to the expiration of the first round, which meant that for the first time in history there will be no candidate for Prime Minister in the first round of election.[2] [3]
On 27 July 2018, the second round of the election began and parties gathered around Marjan Šarec and LMŠ began talks with The Left, which gradually led to forming a new coalition and government. However, The Left was first negotiating to join the government but later decided to not join it. Membership of the party decided on the internal referendum that the party will support the new government from the opposition.[4] [5]
On 8 August 2018 MPs of LMŠ, SD, SMC, SAB and DeSUS submitted the candidature of Marjan Šarec for the 13th Prime Minister of Slovenia. It was unsure at first whether Šarec has enough votes to be elected, since The Left has not decided if it will support his candidature and government by the time candidature was submitted. On 10 August parties of the coalition and The Left initialed an agreement about cooperation which secured Šarec enough votes for election. On 17 August Šarec was elected Prime Minister, and has 15 days to announce candidates for ministers.[6] [7]
On 20 August leaders of the coalition parties met to decide which ministries will be led by each party:
| Minister | Party | ||
| Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Food | DeSUS | ||
| Minister of Culture | SD | ||
| Minister of Defence | DeSUS | ||
| Minister of Economic Development and Technology | SMC | ||
| Minister of Education, Science and Sport | SD | ||
| Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning | SMC | ||
| Minister of Finance | LMŠ | ||
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | SMC | ||
| Minister of Health | LMŠ | ||
| Minister of Infrastructure | SAB | ||
| Minister of Interior | LMŠ | ||
| Minister of Justice | SD | ||
| Minister of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities | SMC | ||
| Minister of Public Administration | LMŠ | ||
| Minister without portfolio for Slovenian diaspora | SAB | ||
| Minister without Portfolio responsible for Development, Strategic Projects and Cohesion | SAB | ||
On 4 September 2018 National Assembly began with hearings of 16 candidates of ministers. Hearings took place on 5 and 6 September as well. On 5 September Marjan Šarec announced that he will replace Tugomir Kodelja, candidate for Minister of Public Administration, who was already confirmed by the committee, with another candidate. Rudi Medved was announced candidate on 7 September.
On 13 September 2018 13th Government of the Republic of Slovenia was officially elected with 45 votes in favor.[9]
Government coalition will be formed of five parties and had parliamentary support of an additional party.
| Party | Leader | MPs | Coalition MPs | Ministers | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LMŠ | List of Marjan Šarec | Marjan Šarec | ||||
| SD | Social Democrats | Dejan Židan | ||||
| SMC | Modern Centre Party | Zdravko Počivalšek | ||||
| SAB | Party of Alenka Bratušek | Alenka Bratušek | ||||
| DeSUS | Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia | Aleksandra Pivec | ||||
| Parliamentary support: | ||||||
| Levica | Left (until 2019) | Luka Mesec | – | – | ||
| IMNS | Italian and Hungarian National Minorities | Felice Žiža Ferench Horváth | – | – | ||
| Total: | ||||||
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| Support | ||||||
| Total | ||||||
| 13th Government of Slovenia 13. Vlada Republike Slovenije | ||||||||||||||
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| Office | Designee | Office | Designee | |||||||||||
| Prime Minister – Announced August 8, 2018 Elected August 17, 2018 Took office September 13, 2018 | Former Mayor of Kamnik, Former MP Marjan Šarec (LMŠ) | Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs (MZZ) – Announced August 30, 2018 Took office September 13, 2018 | Former Prime Minister, Professor Miro Cerar PhD (SMC) | |||||||||||
| Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure (MI) – Announced August 30, 2018 Took office September 13, 2018 | Former Prime Minister Alenka Bratušek MA (SAB) | Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence (MORS) – Announced August 30, 2018 Took office September 13, 2018 | Former Minister (MZZ, MORS, MOP) Karl Erjavec (DeSUS) | |||||||||||
| Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance (MF) – Announced August 30, 2018 Took office September 13, 2018 | Professor, Businessman Andrej Bertoncelj PhD (LMŠ/Ind.) | Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Science and Sport (MIZŠ) – Announced August 30, 2018 Took office September 13, 2018 | Former Minister (MIZŠ) Jernej Pikalo PhD (SD) | |||||||||||
| Office | Designee | Office | Designee | |||||||||||
| Minister of Culture (MK) – Announced February 27, 2019 Took office March 8, 2019 | Zoran Poznič (SD) | Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Food (MKGP) – Announced August 30, 2018 Took office September 13, 2018 | Former State Secretary (USZS) Aleksandra Pivec PhD (DeSUS) | |||||||||||
| Minister of Economic Development and Technology (MGRT) – Announced August 30, 2018 Took office September 13, 2018 | Minister (MGRT) Zdravko Počivalšek (SMC) | Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning (MOP) – Announced March 20, 2019 Took office March 29, 2019 | Former MP Simon Zajc (SMC) | |||||||||||
| Minister of Health (MZ) – Announced March 20, 2019 Took office March 29, 2019 | Aleš Šabeder (LMŠ/Ind.) | Minister of Interior (MNZ) – Announced August 30, 2018 Took office September 13, 2018 | Boštjan Poklukar (LMŠ) | |||||||||||
| Minister of Justice (MP) – Announced August 30, 2018 Took office September 13, 2018 | Former Minister (MORS) Andreja Katič (SD) | Minister of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities (MDDSDEM) – Announced August 30, 2018 Took office September 13, 2018 | Former State Secretary (MJU) Ksenija Klampfer MA (SMC) | |||||||||||
| Minister of Public Administration (MJU) – Announced September 7, 2018 Took office September 13, 2018 | Former MP Rudi Medved (LMŠ) | Minister without portfolio for Slovenian diaspora (USZS) – Announced August 30, 2018 Took office September 13, 2018 | Former MP Peter Jožef Česnik (SAB) | |||||||||||
| Minister without Portfolio responsible for Development, Strategic Projects and Cohesion (SVRK) – Announced December 16, 2019 Took office December 19, 2019 | Former MEP Angelika Mlinar PhD (SAB) | |||||||||||||
| Other officials | ||||||||||||||
| Office | Designee | Office | Designee | |||||||||||
| Secretary-General of the Government – Took office September 13, 2018 | Stojan Tramte (LMŠ) | Chief of the Office of the Prime Minister – Took office September 13, 2018 | Janja Zorman Macura(LMŠ) | |||||||||||
| Director of the Government Office of Legislation – Took office February 21, 2019 | Rado Fele (Ind.) | National Security Adviser to the Prime Minister – Took office September 13, 2018 | Former Director of SOVA Damir Črnčec PhD | |||||||||||
– Chief of the General Staff of the Slovenian Armed Forces – Took office 28 November 2018 | Major General Alenka Ermenc MA | – Director General of the Police – Took office 5 October 2018 | Former Deputy-Director General Tatjana Bobnar MA | |||||||||||
| Director of the Slovene Intelligence and Security Agency (SOVA) | Rajko Kozmelj | Chief of Protocol – Took office 1 October 2018 | Aleksander Strel MA | |||||||||||
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| Source: http://www.vlada.si/ | ||||||||||||||
| SAB | Marko Bandelli | Minister without Portfolio responsible for Development, Strategic Projects and Cohesion | December 21, 2018 | Iztok Purič | ||
| SD | Dejan Prešiček | Minister of Culture | March 8, 2019 | Zoran Poznič | ||
| SMC | Jure Leben | Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning | March 29, 2019 | Simon Zajc | ||
| LMŠ | Samo Fakin | Minister of Health | March 29, 2019 | Aleš Šabeder | ||
| SAB | Iztok Purič | Minister without Portfolio responsible for Development, Strategic Projects and Cohesion | October 7, 2019 | Alenka Bratušek as Acting Minister | ||
| SAB | Alenka Bratušek | Minister without Portfolio responsible for Development, Strategic Projects and Cohesion | October 19, 2019 | Angelika Mlinar | ||
| DeSUS | Karl Erjavec | Minister of Defence |
| Ministry/Office | State Seceratries | |
|---|---|---|
| Office of the Prime Minister | Anja Kopač Mrak | |
| Tadeja Forštner Perklič | ||
| Igor Mally | ||
| Uroš Prikl | ||
| Vojmir Urlep | ||
| Damir Črnčec | ||
| Franc Vesel | ||
| Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food | Tanja Strniša | |
| Jože Podgoršek | ||
| Ministry of Culture | Petra Culetto | |
| Tanja Kerševan Smokvina | ||
| Ministry of Defence | Miloš Bizjak | |
| Klemen Grošelj | ||
| Ministry of Economic Development and Technology | Aleš Centarutti | |
| Eva Štravs Podlogar | ||
| Ministry of Eduacation, Science and Sport | Martina Vuk | |
| Jernej Štromajer | ||
| Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning | Aleš Prijon | |
| Marko Maver | ||
| Ministry of Finance | Metod Dragonja | |
| Natalija Kovač Jereb | ||
| Saša Jazbec | ||
| Alojz Stana | ||
| Ministry of Foreign Affairs | Simona Leskovar | |
| Major General Dobran Božič | ||
| Ministry of Health | Tomaž Pliberšek | |
| Simona Repar Bornšek | ||
| Ministry of Infrastructure | Bojan Kumer | |
| Nina Mauhler | ||
| Ministry of Interior | Melita Šinkovec | |
| Sandi Čurin | ||
| Ministry of Justice | Dominika Švarc Pipan | |
| Gregor Strojin | ||
| Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities | Breda Božnik | |
| Tilen Božič | ||
| Ministry of Public Administration | Mojca Ramšak Pešec | |
| Leon Behin | ||
| Office for Slovenian Abroad | Olga Belec | |
| Office for Development and European Cohesion Policy | Nevenka Ribič | |
| Former: | ||
| Andreja Vraničar Erman, Ministry of Finance | ||
| Roman Kirn, Office of the Prime Minister | ||
| Jan Škoberne, Minister of Culture | ||
| Vojko Stopar, Minister of Culture | ||
| Natalija Kovač Jereb, Ministry of Interior, now Ministry of Finance | ||
| Simon Zajc, Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning | ||
| Pia Vračko, Ministry of Health | ||
| Working body | President | |
|---|---|---|
| Committee on Economy | Jernej Pikalo, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Science and Sport | |
| Committee on the Organisation of the State and Public Affairs | Ksenija Klampfer, Minister of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities | |
| Committee on Administrative Affairs and Appointments | Rudi Medved, Minister of Public Administration |
| Ministry | Body | Head | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food | Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Agricultural Markets and Rural Development | Miran Mihelič | |
| Administration of the Republic of Slovenia for Food Safety, Veterinary Sector and Plant Protection | Janez Posedi | ||
| Inspectorate of the Republic of Slovenia for Agriculture, Forestry, Hunting and Fisheries | Saša Dragar Milanovič | ||
| Ministry of Culture | Culture and Media Inspectorate of the Republic of Slovenia | Sonja Trančar | |
| Archives of the Republic of Slovenia | Bojan Cvelfar | ||
| Ministry of Defence | General Staff of the Slovenian Armed Forces | Major General Alan Geder | |
| Administration of the Republic of Slovenia for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief | Darko But | ||
| Inspectorate of the Republic of Slovenia for Protection against Natural and Other Disasters | Boris Balant | ||
| Defence Inspectorate of the Republic of Slovenia | Roman Zupanec | ||
| Ministry of Economic Development and Technology | Market Inspectorate of the Republic of Slovenia | Andrejka Grlić | |
| Slovenian Intellectual Property Office | Vojko Toman | ||
| Metrology Institute of the Republic of Slovenia | Samo Kopač | ||
| Ministry of Eduacation, Science and Sport | Inspectorate for Education and Sport of the Republic of Slovenia | Tomaž Rozman | |
| Office of the Republic of Slovenia for Youth | Rok Primožič | ||
| Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning | Slovenian Environment Agency | Gregor Sluga | |
| Inspectorate of the Republic of Slovenia for the Environment and Spatial Planning | |||
| Slovenian Nuclear Safety Administration | |||
| Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia | |||
| Slovenian Water Agency | |||
| Ministry of Finance | Financial administration of the Republic of Slovenia | ||
| Office for Money Laundering Prevention of the Republic of Slovenia | |||
| Public Payments Administration of the Republic of Slovenia | |||
| Budget Supervision Office of the Republic of Slovenia | |||
| Ministry of Health | Health Inspectorate of the Republic of Slovenia | ||
| Chemicals Office of the Republic of Slovenia | |||
| Slovenian Radiation Protection Administration | |||
| Ministry of Infrastructure | Inspectorate for infrastructure of the Republic of Slovenia | ||
| Slovenian Maritime Administration | |||
| Slovenian Infrastructure Agency | |||
| Ministry of Interior | Police | ||
| Inspectorate for Interior Affairs | |||
| Ministry of Justice | Prison Administration of the Republic of Slovenia | ||
| Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities | Labour Inspectorate of the Republic od Slovenia | ||
| Ministry of Public Administration | Public Sector Inspectorate |
| Body | Head | |
|---|---|---|
| Fiscal Council | President Davorin Kračun | |
| Economic and Social Council of the Republic of Slovenia | President Lidija Jerkič |
| Government confirmation process | |||||||||||||
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| Office | Name | Party | Announcement | Hearing date | Committee | Committee vote | data-sort-type="date" | National Assembly vote date | Confirmation | ||||
| Y | N | A | Y | N | A | ||||||||
| Prime Minister | Marjan Šarec | LMŠ | 8 August 2018 | / | / | / | 17 August 2018 | 55 | 31 | 11 | |||
| Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Food | data-sort-value="Perdue" | Aleksandra Pivec | DeSUS | 30 August 2018 | 4 September 2018 | CAFF | 10 | 6 | 1 | 13 September 2018 | 45 | 34 | 11 |
| Minister of Culture | data-sort-value="Chao" | Dejan Prešiček | SD | 30 August 2018 | 5 September 2018 | CC | 12 | 1 | 4 | ||||
| Minister of Defence | data-sort-value="Mnuchin" | Karl Erjavec | DeSUS | 30 August 2018 | 6 September 2018 | CD | 8 | 6 | 3 | ||||
| Minister of Economic Development and Technology | data-sort-value="Mattis" | Zdravko Počivalšek | SMC | 30 August 2018 | 6 September 2018 | CE | 11 | 0 | 6 | ||||
| Minister of Education, Science and Sport | data-sort-value="Perry" | Jernej Pikalo | SD | 30 August 2018 | 4 September 2018 | CESSY | 9 | 4 | 4 | ||||
| Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning | data-sort-value="Shulkin" | Jure Leben | SMC | 30 August 2018 | 5 September 2018 | CIESP | 11 | 2 | 4 | ||||
| Minister of Finance | data-sort-value="Sessions" | Andrej Bertoncelj | LMŠ | 30 August 2018 | 6 September 2018 | CF | 10 | 0 | 9 | ||||
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | data-sort-value="Tillerson" | Miro Cerar | SMC | 30 August 2018 | 4 September 2018 | CFP | 9 | 0 | 9 | ||||
| Minister of Health | data-sort-value="Carson" | Samo Fakin | LMŠ | 30 August 2018 | 5 September 2018 | CH | 12 | 5 | 2 | ||||
| Minister of Infrastructure | data-sort-value="DeVos" | Alenka Bratušek | SAB | 30 August 2018 | 5 September 2018 | CIESP | 11 | 4 | 4 | ||||
| Minister of Interior | data-sort-value="Zinke" | Boštjan Poklukar | LMŠ | 30 August 2018 | 4 September 2018 | CIPALSG | 10 | 7 | 2 | ||||
| Minister of Justice | data-sort-value="Ross" | Andreja Katič | SD | 30 August 2018 | 6 September 2018 | CJ | 7 | 4 | 2 | ||||
| Minister of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities | data-sort-value="Price" | Ksenija Klampfer | SMC | 30 August 2018 | 6 September 2018 | CLFSPD | 8 | 3 | 6 | ||||
| Minister of Public Administration | data-sort-value="Acosta" | Tugomir Kodelja (replaced) | LMŠ | 30 August 2018 | 4 September 2018 | CIPALSG | 10 | 5 | 4 | ||||
| Rudi Medved | LMŠ | 7 September 2018 | 10 September 2018 | CIPALSG | 9 | 4 | 6 | 13 September 2018 | 45 | 34 | 11 | ||
| Minister without portfolio for Slovenian diaspora | Peter Jožef Česnik | SAB | 30 August 2018 | 5 September 2018 | CRSNOC | 6 | 2 | 5 | |||||
| Minister without Portfolio responsible for Development, Strategic Projects and Cohesion | Marko Bandelli (resigned) | SAB | 30 August 2018 | 4 September 2018 | CEU | 9 | 5 | 3 | |||||
| CE | 10 | 4 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Iztok Purič | SAB | 28 September 2018 | 3 December 2018 | CEU | 8 | 4 | 5 | 19 December 2018 | 45 | 30 | 15 | ||
| CE | 8 | 4 | 5 | ||||||||||
It was very clear from the beginning of the negotiations that DeSUS will take over Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food. SD stated that they do not want to take over the Ministry after Dejan Židan led it in the Pahor, Bratušek and Cerar government. There were some speculations that SMC's Zdravko Počivalšek might become minister if SMC will not take over Ministry of Economy.
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Social Democrats was the only party that publicly showed their interest to take over Ministry of Culture.
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Karl Erjavec was seen as a candidate for Minister of Defence from the beginning of the negotiations.
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Ministry of Economic Development and Technology was wanted by both, SMC and SD. Some seen this as a potential reason for Šarec failure to form the government if he will not be able to find the consensus between the parties. In the end SMC got the ministry.
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SD expressed its will to take over the ministry. At some point it was reported that SMC will take over the ministry, but in the end it was SD, who got the ministry.
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At the beginning it was announced that SAB will take over the ministry, but later leaders of the parties announced that SMC will take it over.
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Alenka Bratušek expressed her readiness to take over Ministry of Finance, but later become clear that LMŠ will take the ministry, since they will lead the government. Vojmir Urlep was seen as a candidate at first, but later Marjan Šarec stated that he is satisfied with the work of Mateja Vraničar Erman.
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Many have seen Miro Cerar as potential Foreign minister before the election. Cerar declined it at first, since he wanted to become Speaker of the National Assembly. Later it became clear that SD will get the position of the Speaker and that Miro Cerar is willing to take over Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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At the beginning of the negotiations, SMC and SD wanted the ministry. In the end SAB got the ministry.
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