Slovenian Parliament

Slovenian Parliament Slovenski parlament
Type
Type	Bicameral
Houses	• National Assembly • National Council
History
Founded	June 25, 1991; 32 years ago (1991-06-25)
Preceded by	Parliament of Yugoslavia
Leadership
President	Marko Lotrič
Speaker	Urška Klakočar Zupančič
Seats	National Assembly: 90 National Council: 40
Meeting place
National Assembly Building Ljubljana
Website
www.dz-rs.si www.ds-rs.si

According to the Constitution of Slovenia, the general representative body of the Slovenian nation is the National Assembly. The general public in Slovenia often refer to the National Assembly alone as the Slovenian Parliament. However, the National Council, the representative body of basic social groups, also performs a further, if minor, part of the legislative function.

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. In 2008, the Constitutional Court of Slovenia recognized the Slovenian Parliament as incompletely bicameral.

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 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.

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