Three decades ago, Slovenia's independence govt endorsed

Ljubljana, 16 May - Thirty years to the day, the government which led Slovenia to independence was endorsed in parliament after the first democratic elections in the post-WWII period were held in April 1990 in what was then still the Yugoslav republic of Slovenia.

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Former Prime Minister Lojze Peterle.
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Several members of the DEMOS government, pictured in 2009 at GH Union when they marked the 20th anniversary of the establishment of DEMOS.
Pictures are then PM Lojze Peterle (second from let), then Interior Minister Igor Bavčar (in the middle), then Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel (third from right) and then Defence Minister Janez Janša (second from right).
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