Katarina Kresal 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

Politician

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. She is the current Minister of the Interior.

Born in Ljubljana

Ljubljana

Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia and its largest city. It is the centre of the City Municipality of Ljubljana. It is located in the centre of the country in the Ljubljana Basin, and is a mid-sized city of some 270,000 inhabitants...

, Kresal studied law at the University of Ljubljana

University of Ljubljana

The University of Ljubljana is the oldest and largest university in Slovenia. With 64,000 enrolled graduate and postgraduate students, it is among the largest universities in Europe.-Beginnings:...

. She entered politics in 2007, when she was elected as a compromise candidate for the president of the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia

Liberal Democracy of Slovenia

Liberal Democracy of Slovenia is a liberal political party in Slovenia. It is led by Katarina Kresal and is a member of the Liberal International and the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party...

. In the Slovenian parliamentary election, 2008

Slovenian parliamentary election, 2008

Parliamentary elections for the 90 deputies to the National Assembly of Slovenia were held on 21 September 2008. 17 parties filed to run in the election, including all nine parliamentary parties...

, she was elected to the National Assembly

National Assembly (Slovenia)

The National Assembly is the general representative body of the Slovenian nation. According to the Constitution of Slovenia and the Constitutional Court of Slovenia, it is the major part of the distinctively incompletely bicameral legislative branch of the Republic of Slovenia. It is unicameral...

. In November of the same year, she became Minister of Interior of the centre left government of Borut Pahor

Borut Pahor

Borut Pahor is a Slovenian politician who has been Prime Minister of Slovenia since 2008. A longtime president of the Social Democrats party, Pahor served several terms as a member of the National Assembly and was its chairman from 2000 to 2004. In 2004, Pahor was elected as member of the European...

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On 12 January 2010, she was proclaimed the Slovenian Woman of the Year for 2009. The award is conferred each year by readers of Jana, the Slovenian oldest women's magazine.

Car chase

On 14 March 2010, Katarina Kresal was a passenger in Audi A8

Audi A8

The Audi A8 is a four-door, full-size, luxury sedan car manufactured and marketed by the German automaker Audi since 1994. Succeeding the Audi V8, the A8 has been offered with front wheel drive or permanent four-wheel drive, with multitronic or tiptronic automatic transmissions — and in short- and...

 that was reported by Žurnal24

Žurnal24

Žurnal24 is a free, widely circulated daily newspaper published in Ljubljana, Slovenia. It is the youngest daily newspaper in Slovenia, being launched by Styria Medien AG, an Austrian media group, in 2007....

 to be driving faster than 200 kilometres per hour (124.3 mph) towards Fernetiči and without the police lights. The road speed limit was 130 km/h (80.8 mph)

Driving in Slovenia

- Speed Limits :The speed limits in Slovenia are 50 km/h in built up areas, 90 km/h outside built up areas, 110 km/h on dual carriageways and 130 km/h on motorways.- Right of Way :...

. The car stopped only after 30 km (18.6 mi) of car chase

Car chase

A car chase is the vehicular pursuit of a suspect by law enforcement officers. Car chases are often captured on film and broadcast due to the availability of video footage recorded by police cars and police and media helicopters participating in the chase...

. The policeman who drove the car was fined with 460 euro

Euro

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s and 6 demerit points. On 2 April 2010, the police reported the speed did not surpass 166 km/h (103.1 mph). Katarina Kresal said she had not been aware of the car speed.