Monday, November 12, 2007
A Professor of International Law: Slovenia's New President
Danilo Türk, who is currently employed as a professor of International Law and Dean of Student Affairs at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana, is the new president-elect of Slovenia.
According to unofficial results, he is said to have won the run-off on 11 November 2007 with 70.8% of the votes thus beating the convervative Lojze Peterle.
Definitely blog-worthy, I thought. Not every day that a prof becomes pres.
graph per wikipedia
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I bet he's happy to swap the political aspect of the one setting for the other.
He also had a pretty eventful political life pre-election though, having served as ambassador et al....
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