The National Assembly (Slovene: Državni zbor Republike Slovenije, pronounced [dəɾˈʒàːwni ˈzbɔ́ɾ ɾɛˈpúːblikɛ slɔˈʋèːnijɛ]^[2] or [-ˈzbɔ̀ːɾ-]^[2]) is the general representative body of Slovenia. According to the Constitution of Slovenia and the Constitutional Court of Slovenia, it is the major part of the distinctively incompletely bicameral Slovenian Parliament, the legislative branch of the Republic of Slovenia.^[3][4] It has 90 members, elected for a four-year term. 88 members are elected using the party-list proportional representation system and the remaining two, using the Borda count, by the Hungarian and Italian-speaking ethnic minorities, who have an absolute veto in matters concerning their ethnic groups.

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National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia Državni zbor Republike Slovenije
9th National Assembly
Type
Type	Lower house
Leadership
Speaker	Urška Klakočar Zupančič, GS since 13 May 2022
Structure
Seats	90
Political groups	Government (53)[1]   Freedom Movement (41)   Social Democrats (7)   The Left (5) Supported by (2)   Italian and Hungarian national minorities (2)[lower-alpha 1] Opposition (35)   Democratic Party (27)   New Slovenia (8)
Elections
Voting system	Open list proportional representation with a 4% election threshold
First election	8 and 12 April 1990
Last election	24 April 2022
Next election	no later than 24 April 2026
Meeting place
National Assembly Building, Ljubliana
Website
https://www.dz-rs.si

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As of May 2022, the 9th National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia is in session.

A bill can be submitted to the National Assembly by:

• the Government
• an MP
• the National Council
• 5,000 voters

The legislative procedure begins when the Speaker passes a bill to the MPs.

There are three possible legislative procedures:

• regular legislative procedure
• abbreviated legislative procedure
• urgent legislative procedure

Bills are normally passed by a majority of the present MPs. If the Constitution demands a two-thirds majority (laws regulating electoral systems, referendums and constitutional laws which amend the Constitution), then at least 60 of the 90 MPs must vote for the bill for passage.

1. France Bučar (SDZ): 9 May 1990 – 23 December 1992
2. Herman Rigelnik (LDS): 23 December 1992 – 14 September 1994
-- Miroslav Mozetič (acting) (SKD): 14 September 1994 - 16 September 1994
3. Jožef Školč (LDS): 16 September 1994 – 3 December 1996
4. Janez Podobnik (SLS): 3 December 1996 – 27 October 2000
5. Borut Pahor (ZLSD): 10 November 2000 – 9 July 2004
-- Valentin Pohorec (acting) (DeSUS): 9–12 July 2004
6. Feri Horvat (ZLSD): 12 July 2004 – 22 October 2004
7. France Cukjati (SDS): 22 October 2004 – 15 October 2008
8. Pavel Gantar (Zares): 15 October 2008 – 2 September 2011
-- Vasja Klavora (acting) (Desus): 2 September 2011
9. Ljubo Germič (LDS): 2 September 2011 – 21 December 2011
10. Gregor Virant (LGV/DL): 21 December 2011 – 28 January 2013
-- Jakob Presečnik (acting) (SLS): 28 January 2013 – 27 February 2013
11. Janko Veber (SD): 27 February 2013 – 1 August 2014
12. Milan Brglez (SMC): 1 August 2014 – 22 June 2018
13. Matej Tonin (NSi): 22 June 2018 – 23 August 2018
-- Tina Heferle (acting) (LMŠ): 23 August 2018
14. Dejan Židan (SD): 23 August 2018 – 3 March 2020
-- Branko Simonovič (acting) (Desus): 3 March 2020 - 5 March 2020
15. Igor Zorčič (SMC): 5 March 2020 - 13 May 2022
16. Urška Klakočar Zupančič (GS): 13 May 2022 - (incumbent)

The 90 members of the National Assembly are elected by two methods. 88 are elected by open list proportional representation in eight 11-seat constituencies and seats are allocated to the parties at the constituency level using the Droop quota. The elected Deputies are identified by ranking all of a party's candidates in a constituency by the percentage of votes they received in their district. The seats that remain unallocated are allocated to the parties at the national level using the d'Hondt method with an electoral threshold of 4%.^[5] Although the country is divided into 88 electoral districts, deputies are not elected from all 88 districts. More than one deputy is elected in some districts, which results in some districts not having an elected deputy (for instance, 21 of 88 electoral districts did not have an elected deputy in the 2014 elections).^[6] Parties must have at least 35% of their lists from each gender, except in cases where there are only three candidates. For these lists, there must be at least one candidate of each gender.^[7][8]

Two additional deputies are elected by the Italian and Hungarian minorities. Voters rank all of the candidates on the ballot paper using numbers (1 being highest priority). A candidate is awarded the most points (equal to the number of candidates on the ballot paper) when a voter ranks them first. The candidate with most points wins.^[9][5]

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• 3rd National Assembly
• 4th National Assembly
• 5th National Assembly
• 6th National Assembly
• 7th National Assembly
• 8th National Assembly

• List of members of the 1st National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia [sl]
• List of members of the 2nd National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia [sl]
• List of members of the 3rd National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia [sl]
• List of members of the 4th National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia [sl]
• List of members of the 5th National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia [sl]
• List of members of the 6th National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia [sl]
• List of members of the 7th National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia [sl]
• List of members of the 8th National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia