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STAT	Croatia	Slovenia	HISTORY
Head of state > Term limit for head of state	5 Ranked 44th. The same as Slovenia	5 Ranked 74th.
President	Ivo Josipovic	Borut Pahor
President > Profile	<p>Social Democrat Ivo Josipovic was elected for a five-year term in January 2010. He pledged to fight corruption and help Croatia achieve EU membership.</p> <p>The role of the president is largely ceremonial. He proposes the prime minister but it is for parliament to approve the nomination. </p> <p>The president can dissolve parliament and call elections.</p>	<p>The prime minister of a centre-left government between 2008-12, Borut Pahor was elected president in December 2012, beating incumbent Danilo Turk by a thumping margin of 34% of the vote.</p> <p>However, the low turnout - only one in three eligible voters made it to the polls - was seen as a sign of widespread disenchantment with Slovenia&#039;s political class.</p> <p>The election took place against a background of popular discontent at the centre-right government&#039;s austerity measures, with many Slovenes taking to the streets to call for the resignation of the political elite.</p> <p>Mr Pahor&#039;s conciliatory style and calm demeanour was seen to have gone down better than the abrasive approach of Mr Turk, and he appears to be untouched by the corruption allegations that have dogged other senior Slovene politicians.</p> <p>He said on being elected that Slovenia needs &quot;trust, respect and tolerance&quot;. </p> <p>The role of president is largely ceremonial, but carries authority in defence and foreign affairs.</p> <p>Born in 1963, Mr Pahor belonged to the reform wing of the Yugoslav Communist League in Slovenia in the 1980s, before going on to become the leader of the Social Democrats after Slovene independence.</p> <p>He became prime minister after his party&#039;s narrow victory at the September 2008 parliamentary elections. The Social Democrats replaced a centre-right coalition under Janez Jansa, the current prime minister.</p> <p>His government lost a vote of confidence in September 2011 after a referendum rejected major pension reforms.</p>
President > Summary	Croatian President Ivo Josipovic	Mr Pahor is seen as a more conciliatory figure than his predecessor
Prime minister	Zoran Milanovic	Alenka Bratusek
Prime minister > Profile	<p>Zoran Milanovic became prime minister after his four-party centre-left coalition bloc defeated the conservative Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) in elections in December 2011.</p> <p>The HDZ had held power for most of the previous two decades, but had come to be seen as mired in corruption - a view that was confirmed when former HDZ prime minister Ivo Sanader was put on trial for corruption in November 2011. </p> <p>Riding a tide of popular anger over government graft and economic stagnation, the Kukuriku (&quot;cock-a-doodle-doo&quot;) bloc led by Mr Milanovic&#039;s own Social Democratic Party (SDP) won 81 seats in the 151-seat national assembly. The SDP took 61 of those seats.</p> <p>Mr Milanovic&#039;s chief election pledges were to revitalise the struggling economy and prepare Croatia for EU membership.</p> <p>His government adopted tough austerity measures in an effort to avoid a further downgrade in the country&#039;s credit rating - which by the end of 2010 had deteriorated to just a notch above junk status - revive industry and attract foreign investment.</p> <p>Mr Milanovic&#039;s efforts to restructure industry - especially the country&#039;s ailing shipyards - and cut back on public spending in order to meet the conditions for EU entry brought the government into conflict with the unions and dampened enthusiasm for EU membership.</p> <p>Unemployment has remained stubbornly high. Shortly before the centre-left coalition came to power the jobless rate stood at just under 18%; by February 2013 it was closer to 19%, with youth unemployment at 51%.</p> <p>On the eve of Croatia&#039;s EU accession in July 2013, Mr Milanovic acknowledged that the bloc&#039;s economic woes had undermined the Croatian people&#039;s support for membership, but insisted that there were still many good reasons for joining.</p> <p>Zoran Milanovic joined the SDP in 1999 and became the party&#039;s president in June 2007, in an election that followed the death of the party&#039;s founder, veteran Croatian politician Ivica Racan, two months earlier.</p> <p>He then led the SDP into the November 2007 general election, which it narrowly lost.</p> <p>He was born in Zagreb in 1966 and after studying law at university embarked on a diplomatic career. In 1994, he went to Nagorno-Karabakh on a peace mission on behalf of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), and was the first Croatian citizen to serve in this role.</p> <p>He is married, and has two sons.</p>	<p>Opposition leader Alenka Bratusek took over as prime minister when Janez Jansa&#039;s year-old centre-right coalition collapsed in disputes over austerity measures and corruption allegations in February-March 2013.</p> <p>She only entered parliament in 2011 after a career in the finance ministry, and took over leadership of the social liberal Positive Slovenia party on an acting basis in January 2013 after leader Zoran Jankovic stepped down - also over corruption allegations.</p> <p>Ms Bratusek has criticised the austerity policy of her predecessor, saying her priority will be &quot;growth and jobs&quot;, but she may have little choice but to implement public spending cuts given the country&#039;s financial fragility.</p> <p>On taking office, she dismissed speculation that Slovenia, which was struggling with a banking crisis, might be the next eurozone country after Cyprus to need a bailout.</p> <p>Political observers in Slovenia say the chances of the coalition lasting until 2015 are slim, making early elections highly likely.</p>
Prime minister > Summary	Zoran Milanovic has been a keen advocate of EU membership	Alenka Bratusek became prime minister in the middle of a severe economic and political crisis

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