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	\| name = Slovenian Parliament		\| name = Slovenian Parliament
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	\| houses = • [[National Assembly (Slovenia)\|National Assembly]]<br> • [[National Council (Slovenia)\|National Council]]		\| houses = • [[National Assembly (Slovenia)\|National Assembly]]<br> • [[National Council (Slovenia)\|National Council]]
	\| leader1_type = President		\| leader1_type = President of the National Council
	\| leader1 = [[Marko Lotrič]]		\| leader1 = [[Marko Lotrič]]
	\| party1 =		\| party1 =
	\| election1 =		\| election1 =
	\| leader2_type = Speaker		\| leader2_type = Speaker of the National Assembly
	\| leader2 = [[Urška Klakočar Zupančič]]		\| leader2 = [[Urška Klakočar Zupančič]]
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	\| last_election1 =		\| last_election1 = [[2026 Slovenian parliamentary election\|22 March 2026]]
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	~~\| previous_election1 =~~		\| previous_election2 =
	\| previous_election2 =
	\| session_room = Zgradba Državnega zbora.jpg		\| session_room = Zgradba Državnega zbora.jpg
	\| session_res =		\| session_res =
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	\| meeting_place = [[National Assembly Building of the Republic of Slovenia\|National Assembly Building]] [[Ljubljana]]		\| meeting_place = [[National Assembly Building of the Republic of Slovenia\|National Assembly Building]], [[Ljubljana]]
	\| website = {{URL\|www.dz~~-rs.si}}<br>{{URL\|www.ds~~-rs.si}}		\| website = {{URL\|www.dz-rs.si}}
	\| footnotes =		\| footnotes =
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	{{Politics of Slovenia}}		{{Politics of Slovenia}}

	The '''Slovenian Parliament''' ({{~~lang-~~sl\|Slovenski parlament}}) is the informal designation of the general [[representative democracy\|representative]] body of the [[Slovenia]]n nation and the [[legislature\|legislative body]] of the Republic of Slovenia.		The '''Slovenian Parliament''' ({{langx\|sl\|Slovenski parlament}}) is the informal designation of the general [[representative democracy\|representative]] body of the [[Slovenia]]n nation and the [[legislature\|legislative body]] of the Republic of Slovenia.

	According to the [[Constitution of Slovenia]], the general representative body of the Slovenian nation is the [[National Assembly (Slovenia)\|National Assembly]]. The general public in Slovenia often refer to the National Assembly alone as the Slovenian Parliament.<ref>{{cite news \|url=http://www.rtvslo.si/slovenija/drzavni-svet-pogosto-jabolko-spora/96108 \|title=Državni svet: pogosto jabolko spora \|trans-title=National Council: A Frequent Apple of Discord \|access-date=16 December 2010 \|language=sl \|publisher=MMC RTV Slovenija}}</ref> However, the [[National Council (Slovenia)\|National Council]], the representative body of basic social groups, also performs a further, if minor, part of the legislative function.<ref name="Celje">{{cite book \|url=http://www.knjiznica-celje.si/raziskovalne/4200607533.pdf \|title=Državni svet - del slovenskega parlamenta? \|trans-title=National Council - a Part of Slovenian Parliament? \|language=sl, en\|year=2006 \|first=Božidar \|last=Veljković \|author2=Melita Stiplošek \|author3=Natalija Ulaga \|author4=Monika Koražija \|access-date=16 December 2010}}</ref>		According to the [[Constitution of Slovenia]], the general representative body of the Slovenian nation is the [[National Assembly (Slovenia)\|National Assembly]]. The general public in Slovenia often refer to the National Assembly alone as the Slovenian Parliament.<ref>{{cite news \|url=http://www.rtvslo.si/slovenija/drzavni-svet-pogosto-jabolko-spora/96108 \|title=Državni svet: pogosto jabolko spora \|trans-title=National Council: A Frequent Apple of Discord \|date=14 January 2009 \|access-date=16 December 2010 \|language=sl \|publisher=MMC RTV Slovenija}}</ref> However, the [[National Council (Slovenia)\|National Council]], the representative body of basic social groups, also performs a further, if minor, part of the legislative function.<ref name="Celje">{{cite book \|url=http://www.knjiznica-celje.si/raziskovalne/4200607533.pdf \|title=Državni svet - del slovenskega parlamenta? \|trans-title=National Council - a Part of Slovenian Parliament? \|language=sl, en\|year=2006 \|first=Božidar \|last=Veljković \|author2=Melita Stiplošek \|author3=Natalija Ulaga \|author4=Monika Koražija \|access-date=16 December 2010}}</ref>

	The opinions of experts and of the general Slovenian public on whether the Slovenian Parliament is [[bicameral]] or [[unicameral]] differ, although most consider it to be incompletely bicameral.<ref name="Lakota">{{cite book \|url=http://dk.fdv.uni-lj.si/dela/Lakota-Igor.PDF \|title=Sistem nepopolne dvodomnosti v slovenskem parlamentu (diplomska naloga) \|trans-title=The system of incomplete bicameralism in the Slovenian Parliament (diploma thesis) \|page=62 \|first=Igor \|last=Lakota \|year=2006 \|access-date=16 December 2010 \|publisher=Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana \|language=sl}}</ref><ref>{{cite book\|title=Slovenia: From Yugoslavia to the European Union\|year=2004\|publisher=World Bank Publications\|isbn=9780821357187\|pages=[https://archive.org/details/sloveniafromyugo0000mrak/page/56 56]–57\|url=https://archive.org/details/sloveniafromyugo0000mrak\|url-access=registration\|quote=slovenia incomplete bicameral.\|author=Mojmir Mrak\|author2=Matija Rojec \|author3=Carlos Silva-Jáuregui \|author4=World Bank \|access-date=16 December 2010\|chapter=The Legislative Branch}}</ref> In 2008, the [[Constitutional Court of Slovenia]] recognized the Slovenian Parliament as incompletely bicameral.<ref name="US2008">{{cite news \|url=http://odlocitve.us-rs.si/usrs/us-odl.nsf/o/91B69BBC50349012C12574F2004123EB \|title=U-I-295/07-8 \|access-date=16 December 2010 \|language=sl \|publisher=Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia \|quote=S tega vidika lahko govorimo o nepopolni dvodomnosti slovenskega parlamenta, kajti po ustavnopravni teoriji se šteje za dvodomno vsaka ureditev, v kateri delujeta na področju zakonodajne funkcije dva organa, ne glede na to, kakšno razmerje je med njima.}}</ref>		The opinions of experts and of the general Slovenian public on whether the Slovenian Parliament is [[bicameral]] or [[unicameral]] differ, although most consider it to be incompletely bicameral.<ref name="Lakota">{{cite book \|url=http://dk.fdv.uni-lj.si/dela/Lakota-Igor.PDF \|title=Sistem nepopolne dvodomnosti v slovenskem parlamentu (diplomska naloga) \|trans-title=The system of incomplete bicameralism in the Slovenian Parliament (diploma thesis) \|page=62 \|first=Igor \|last=Lakota \|year=2006 \|access-date=16 December 2010 \|publisher=Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana \|language=sl}}</ref><ref>{{cite book\|title=Slovenia: From Yugoslavia to the European Union\|year=2004\|publisher=World Bank Publications\|isbn=9780821357187\|pages=[https://archive.org/details/sloveniafromyugo0000mrak/page/56 56]–57\|url=https://archive.org/details/sloveniafromyugo0000mrak\|url-access=registration\|quote=slovenia incomplete bicameral.\|author=Mojmir Mrak\|author2=Matija Rojec \|author3=Carlos Silva-Jáuregui \|author4=World Bank \|access-date=16 December 2010\|chapter=The Legislative Branch}}</ref> In 2008, the [[Constitutional Court of Slovenia]] recognized the Slovenian Parliament as incompletely bicameral.<ref name="US2008">{{cite news \|url=http://odlocitve.us-rs.si/usrs/us-odl.nsf/o/91B69BBC50349012C12574F2004123EB \|title=U-I-295/07-8 \|date=22 October 2008 \|access-date=16 December 2010 \|language=sl \|publisher=Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia \|quote=S tega vidika lahko govorimo o nepopolni dvodomnosti slovenskega parlamenta, kajti po ustavnopravni teoriji se šteje za dvodomno vsaka ureditev, v kateri delujeta na področju zakonodajne funkcije dva organa, ne glede na to, kakšno razmerje je med njima.}}</ref>

			== History ==
			The first Slovenian legislature was the ''[[Landtag]]'' or Diet of the Duchy of Carniola, the most predominantly Slovene-populated (95% in 1910) region of the [[Austro-Hungarian Empire]]. Established as part of the reforms that attended the [[Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867\|Dual Compromise]] of 1867, the devolved legislature sat until the end of the empire in 1918. It consisted of a single chamber of thirty-seven delegates, whose competencies extended solely to local matters.

			The interwar [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia]] was a [[Vidovdan Constitution\|centralist regime]], with a national parliament but no regional assemblies. The legal continuity of the present Slovenian Parliament can therefore be traced to the Constituent Assembly of the [[People's Republic of Slovenia]], a unicameral body with 120 delegates elected on 27 October 1946.

			The Assembly had been convened to draft a constitution; having done so, it began functioning as a legislature, and was renamed to the People's Assembly of the People's Republic of Slovenia on 17 January 1947.

			In 1953, the Assembly was made bicameral, encompassing two houses ("''zbor''", usually also translated as "assembly".) The generally-representative Assembly of the Republic was supplemented with an Assembly of Producers, intended for representatives of state-owned industries.

			In 1963, a new constitution renamed the polity the Socialist Republic of Slovenia. The new Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia was made a rare quintocameral legislature, comprising an:

			* Assembly of the Republic
			* Economic Assembly
			* Educational and Cultural Assembly
			* Socio-Medical Assembly
			* Organisational and Political Assembly

			This was found to be unwieldy, and a 1968 amendment combined the middle three ''zbors'' into a single Assembly of Labor Associations, and renamed the final one to the Socio-Political Assembly.

			A more radical reform followed soon afterward, when the devolutionary [[1974 Yugoslav Constitution]] abolished the Assembly of the Republic altogether and transferred its competencies to the Socio-Political Assembly. Unlike the Assembly of the Republic - which had been de-facto dominated by the [[League of Communists of Slovenia]] (ZKS), but was nominally a representative legislature elected by universal suffrage - the Socio-Political Assembly was legally a single-party body. Its fifty seats were formally allocated (ten each) to the ZKS and four of its subsidiary organizations:

			* the League of Socialist Youth of Slovenia (ZSMS)
			* the Socialist League of the Working People of Slovenia (SZDLS)
			* the League of Trade Unions, and
			* the Association of Veterans of the Slovenian National Liberation War

			Delegates were elected indirectly, in [[Elections in the Soviet Union\|Soviet-style]] single-candidate approval votes held by similar socio-political assemblies established at the municipal level.

			Despite this fundamental change, the 1974 Constitution retained the tricameral structure established in 1968. The Socio-Political Assembly was supplemented with a new Municipalities' Assembly (150 delegates) and an Assembly of United Labor (60-65 delegates). The latter ''zbor'' was a continuation of the 1968 Assembly of Labor Associations, and was (like it) geared toward the representation of economic and occupational interests (though it also contained representatives from state agencies, and a single delegate from the [[Yugoslav People's Army\|federal armed forces]].)

			[[Revolutions of 1989\|Legislative reforms in 1990]] saw the word "Socialist" dropped from the republic's name and the ZKS surrendering its privileged status. In the multi-party elections of the same year, the three ''zbors'' were retained, though their number of deputies was equalized at 80 each, for a total of 240. The Socio-Political Assembly was converted into a general representative body, while the other two ''zbors'' retained their specialized representation, but now on a contested basis. The basic structure of the 1974 constitution therefore endured until the first elections under the [[Constitution of Slovenia\|1991 constitution]] could be held in December of 1992.

			The new constitution abolished all three ''zbors''. The Socio-Political Assembly was replaced by the [[National Assembly (Slovenia)\|National Assembly]], a democratically-elected general representative body with ninety delegates. The functions of the Municipalities' Assembly and Assembly of United Labor were informally combined in the new 40-seat [[National Council (Slovenia)\|National Council]], with 18 seats allotted to local interests and the remaining 22 to basic social groups such as employers, students, and workers.

	==Seat==		==Seat==
	{{main\|National Assembly Building of the Republic of Slovenia}}		{{main\|National Assembly Building of the Republic of Slovenia}}
	The National Assembly and the National Council convene in a [[modernist]] palace known as the "Slovenian Parliament" and sited in [[Republic Square, ~~Ljubljana\|Republic Square]], [[~~Ljubljana]]. It was built between 1954 and 1959 by the architect {{interlanguage link\|Vinko Glanz\|sl}}. An unrealized project for a Slovenian Parliament building, designed by the architect [[Jože Plečnik]] in the late 1940s, features on the [[Slovenian euro coins]].		The National Assembly and the National Council convene in a [[modernist]] palace known as the "Slovenian Parliament" and sited in [[Republic Square, Ljubljana]]. It was built between 1954 and 1959 by the architect {{interlanguage link\|Vinko Glanz\|sl}}. An [[Plečnik Parliament\|unrealized project]] for a Slovenian Parliament building, designed by the architect [[Jože Plečnik]] in the late 1940s, features on the [[Slovenian euro coins]].

	==See also==		==See also==
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	==External links==		==External links==
			{{commons category\|Parliament of Slovenia\|Slovenian Parliament}}
	* [http://www.dz-rs.si/ National Assembly]		* [http://www.dz-rs.si/ National Assembly]
	* [http://www.ds-rs.si/ National Council]		* [http://www.ds-rs.si/ National Council]

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{{Politics of Slovenia}}

The '''Slovenian Parliament''' ({{lang-sl|Slovenski parlament}}) is the informal designation of the general [[representative democracy|representative]] body of the [[Slovenia]]n nation and the [[legislature|legislative body]] of the Republic of Slovenia.

According to the [[Constitution of Slovenia]], the general representative body of the Slovenian nation is the [[National Assembly (Slovenia)|National Assembly]]. The general public in Slovenia often refer to the National Assembly alone as the Slovenian Parliament.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.rtvslo.si/slovenija/drzavni-svet-pogosto-jabolko-spora/96108 |title=Državni svet: pogosto jabolko spora |trans-title=National Council: A Frequent Apple of Discord |access-date=16 December 2010 |language=sl |publisher=MMC RTV Slovenija}}</ref> However, the [[National Council (Slovenia)|National Council]], the representative body of basic social groups, also performs a further, if minor, part of the legislative function.<ref name="Celje">{{cite book |url=http://www.knjiznica-celje.si/raziskovalne/4200607533.pdf |title=Državni svet - del slovenskega parlamenta? |trans-title=National Council - a Part of Slovenian Parliament? |language=sl, en|year=2006 |first=Božidar |last=Veljković |author2=Melita Stiplošek |author3=Natalija Ulaga |author4=Monika Koražija |access-date=16 December 2010}}</ref>

The opinions of experts and of the general Slovenian public on whether the Slovenian Parliament is [[bicameral]] or [[unicameral]] differ, although most consider it to be incompletely bicameral.<ref name="Lakota">{{cite book |url=http://dk.fdv.uni-lj.si/dela/Lakota-Igor.PDF |title=Sistem nepopolne dvodomnosti v slovenskem parlamentu (diplomska naloga) |trans-title=The system of incomplete bicameralism in the Slovenian Parliament (diploma thesis) |page=62 |first=Igor |last=Lakota |year=2006 |access-date=16 December 2010 |publisher=Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana |language=sl}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Slovenia: From Yugoslavia to the European Union|year=2004|publisher=World Bank Publications|isbn=9780821357187|pages=[https://archive.org/details/sloveniafromyugo0000mrak/page/56 56]–57|url=https://archive.org/details/sloveniafromyugo0000mrak|url-access=registration|quote=slovenia incomplete bicameral.|author=Mojmir Mrak|author2=Matija Rojec |author3=Carlos Silva-Jáuregui |author4=World Bank |access-date=16 December 2010|chapter=The Legislative Branch}}</ref> In 2008, the [[Constitutional Court of Slovenia]] recognized the Slovenian Parliament as incompletely bicameral.<ref name="US2008">{{cite news |url=http://odlocitve.us-rs.si/usrs/us-odl.nsf/o/91B69BBC50349012C12574F2004123EB |title=U-I-295/07-8 |access-date=16 December 2010 |language=sl |publisher=Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia |quote=S tega vidika lahko govorimo o nepopolni dvodomnosti slovenskega parlamenta, kajti po ustavnopravni teoriji se šteje za dvodomno vsaka ureditev, v kateri delujeta na področju zakonodajne funkcije dva organa, ne glede na to, kakšno razmerje je med njima.}}</ref>

==Seat==
{{main|National Assembly Building of the Republic of Slovenia}}
The National Assembly and the National Council convene in a [[modernist]] palace known as the "Slovenian Parliament" and sited in [[Republic Square, Ljubljana|Republic Square]], [[Ljubljana]]. It was built between 1954 and 1959 by the architect {{interlanguage link|Vinko Glanz|sl}}. An unrealized project for a Slovenian Parliament building, designed by the architect [[Jože Plečnik]] in the late 1940s, features on the [[Slovenian euro coins]].

==See also==
*[[Politics of Slovenia]]
*[[List of legislatures by country]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.dz-rs.si/ National Assembly]
* [http://www.ds-rs.si/ National Council]

{{Slovenia topics}}
{{National bicameral legislatures}}
{{Parliaments in Europe}}

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