Eva Irgl is a Slovenia

Slovenia

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n politician

Politician

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 and former TV host, currently serving as member of the Slovenian National Assembly.

Life and career

Eva Irgl was born in Šempeter

Šempeter pri Gorici

Šempeter pri Gorici is a town and the administrative centre of the Šempeter-Vrtojba municipality in the Slovene Littoral region of Slovenia. There is a border crossing into the Italian town of Gorizia...

 near Nova Gorica

Nova Gorica

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 in western Slovenia, then part of former Yugoslavia

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. She was the daughter of an elementary schoolmaster. She spent her childhood in Vipava, Slovenia

Vipava, Slovenia

Vipava is a small town in western Slovenia with 1500 inhabitants. It is the center of a municipality with 5,185 people. Vipava is built near the numerous sources of the Vipava River, in the upper Vipava Valley, 102 m above sea level...

. She finished the grammar school in Ajdovščina

Ajdovšcina

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 and studied theology

Theology

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 at the University of Ljubljana

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. During her studies, she had passed an audition for the Slovenian national television. She had hosted a TV show for three years and assisted in a morning programme. She also wrote columns for the Mag magazine, which had at the time a right of centre editorial policy.

In the 2004 parliamentary elections

Slovenian parliamentary election, 2004

-Delegation of Socialni demokrati [United List of Social Democrats]:-Delegation of Liberalna demokracija Slovenije [Liberal Democracy of Slovenia]:-Delegation of Nova Slovenija [New Slovenia]:...

, she was elected to the Slovenian National Assembly on the list of the Slovenian Democratic Party

Slovenian Democratic Party

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. She was re-elected in 2008

Slovenian parliamentary election, 2008

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As an MP, she is currently sitting in the following parliamentary committees:

• Commission for Petitions, Human Rights and Equal Opportunities (Chair)
• Committee on Domestic Policy, Public Administration and Justice (Member)
• Committee on Higher Education, Science and Technological Development (Member)

Besides Slovene, she is fluent in English

English language

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, Serbo-Croatian

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 and Italian

Italian language

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