17 Facts About Dimitrij Rupel

Dimitrij Rupel was born on 7 April 1946 and is a Slovenian politician.

The publication of the manifesto by the journal Nova revija, edited by Dimitrij Rupel, caused a huge scandal in Yugoslavia, and Dimitrij Rupel was forced to step down as editor.

Dimitrij Rupel remained in office during the first centre-left coalition government led by Janez Drnovsek.

In 1991, the Slovenian Democratic Union suffered an internal split: Dimitrij Rupel led its left-wing fraction, formed among others by Jelko Kacin, Igor Bavcar, and France Bucar, into the formation of a new party, called the Democratic Party.

In 1994, most of Dimitrij Rupel's party merged into the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia party, led by Janez Drnovsek.

Dimitrij Rupel remained in this position until 1997, when he was appointed ambassador to the United States.

Dimitrij Rupel returned to the post of the foreign minister of Slovenia in 2000 in the third cabinet of Janez Drnovsek.

Dimitrij Rupel remained in this position until July 2004, when Prime Minister Anton Rop replaced him with Ivo Vajgl.

Dimitrij Rupel returned to his seat in parliament, left the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia party, and joined the opposition Slovenian Democratic Party.

In October 2004, this party won the election and Dimitrij Rupel became foreign minister in Janez Jansa's centre-right government when it was approved by parliament on 3 December 2004.

In 2008, after the victory of the centre-left coalition led by Borut Pahor, Dimitrij Rupel was replaced as foreign minister by Samuel Zbogar.

In 2017 Dimitrij Rupel was an international observer in the 2017 Catalan independence referendum.

In 2020, Dimitrij Rupel was one of the candidates for the post as Representative on Freedom of the Media of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.

Dimitrij Rupel is the uncle of the Slovene pop-singer Anja Dimitrij Rupel.

Dimitrij Rupel was married to Marjetica Ana Rudolf Rupel until her death in 2022.

Dimitrij Rupel was previously married to Slovenian singer Lado Leskovar.

Dimitrij Rupel's father was Janko Rudolf, Slovenian partisan, People's Hero and politician.