Ljubo Germič is a Slovenia

Slovenia

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n politician

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 and a member of the Slovenian National Assembly. After the resignation of Pavel Gantar

Pavel Gantar

Pavel Gantar, also known as Pavle Gantar is a Slovenian politician and sociologist.Gantar was born in the Upper Carniolan village of Gorenja vas near Škofja Loka, Slovenia, in what was then Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. After finishing a professional school for carpentry, he decided to...

, Germič was elected president of the National Assembly

National Assembly (Slovenia)

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 on September 2, 2011.

Work experience

After having graduated form the Technical Faculty of the University of Maribor, Department of Chemical Engineering in 1984, he started working as chemical technologist at the Ruše nitrogen factory. In 1987, he joined the staff of the Technical Faculty as a teaching and research assistant, continuing his postgraduate training at the University of Twente, the Netherlands (1992–1994).
In 1994, he began teaching at the Secondary School of Ruše where he was appointed headmaster in 1997. He held the position until 2000 when he was elected deputy of the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia. In the parliamentary term 2000 - 2004, he was a member of the Committee on Health, Labour, the Family, Social Affairs and the Disabled (Deputy Chair between 2003 and 2004); a member of the Committee on Culture, Education, Youth, Science and Sport, as well as a member of the Committee on Finance and Monetary Policy, and Chair of the Committee on EU Affairs (2004). He was also a member of the Executive Committee of the GLOBE Slovenia Parliamentary Group and the President of the Parliamentary friendship group with Finland.
In 2003 - 2004, he was nominated Observer to the European Parliament and later Member of the European Parliament. In 2004, he was re-elected deputy of the National Assembly and chairs the Committee on Health. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the GLOBE Slovenia Parliamentary Group.
Since 1998, he has been a member of the Ruše Municipal Council.

Working bodies

• Committee on Health (Chair)
• Committee on Culture, Education, Sport and Youth (Member)
• Committee on Labour, the Family, Social Policy and Disability (Deputy Chair)
• Committee on Higher Education, Science and Technological Development (Member)

Delegations

• Delegacija Državnega zbora v Parliamentarni skupščini Sveta Evrope (Alternate member)

Parliamentary friendship groups

• Skupina prijateljstva z Avstralijo (Member)
• Skupina prijateljstva s Finsko (Chair)
• Skupina prijateljstva s Kanado (Member)
• Skupina prijateljstva s Kitajsko (Member)