Ivo Vajgl is a Slovenia

Slovenia

Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...

n politician and diplomat.

Political career

Born in Maribor

Maribor

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, he studied at the University of Ljubljana

University of Ljubljana

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. He was appointed foreign minister by Prime Minister

Prime Minister of Slovenia

There have been six Prime Ministers of Slovenia since that country gained its independence in the breakup of Yugoslavia. Unlike the President of Slovenia, who is directly elected, the Prime Minister is appointed by the National Assembly, and must control a majority there in order to...

 Anton Rop

Anton Rop

Anton Rop is a Slovenian politician. He is currently a member of the National Assembly of Slovenia. He was the fourth Prime Minister of Slovenia, from 2002 to 2004. Until 2005 he was also the president of the Liberal Democratic Party , the legal successor of the Slovenian Association of Socialist...

 on 6 July 2004, replacing Dimitrij Rupel

Dimitrij Rupel

Dimitrij Rupel is a Slovenian politician.- Biography :Rupel was born in Ljubljana, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Slovenia, into a bourgeois family of former anti-fascist political emigrants from the Julian March .After receiving a bachelor's degree in comparative literature and...

, who left the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia

Liberal Democracy of Slovenia

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 party to join the opposition Slovenian Democratic Party

Slovenian Democratic Party

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. Vajgl's tenure ended on 3 December 2004 with Rupel's reappointment to the position in the new administration of Janez Janša

Janez Janša

Janez Janša is a Slovenian politician who was Prime Minister of Slovenia from November 2004 to November 2008. He has also been President of the Slovenian Democratic Party since 1993...

, formed after the 2004 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]:...

 to the National Assembly

National Assembly (Slovenia)

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, which had been held on 3 October.

As foreign minister, Vajgl joined Rop in signing

Signatories to the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe

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 the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe

Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe

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 in Rome

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 on 29 October 2004. Between 2004 and 2007, Vajgl worked as the advisor for foreign policy in the cabinet of the President of Slovenia

President of Slovenia

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 Janez Drnovšek

Janez Drnovšek

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. Since the mid 1990s, Vajgl was member of the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia

Liberal Democracy of Slovenia

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. In 2005, he ran as a candidate for president of the party, but was defeated by Jelko Kacin

Jelko Kacin

Jelko Kacin is a Slovenian politician and Member of the European Parliament. During the Slovenian Independence War he was the Secretary of Information of Slovenia. He founded the Slovenian Press Agency on 3 June 1991 and the war started on 27 June 1991...

. In 2007, Vajgl left the Liberal Democracy and joined the newly formed party Zares

Zares

Zares – Social Liberals is a social-liberal political party in Slovenia. Its president is Gregor Golobič, former Secretary General of the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia and former close advisor to the late Janez Drnovšek, who had previously abandoned active political involvement due to...

.

In the 2009 European Parliament elections Ivo Vajgl headed the list of 7 candidates for the party Zares. On 7 June 2009 he was elected as Member of the European Parliament with 9,77% of the vote and 21.031 preferential votes.