Robert Golob
Robert Golob | |
|---|---|
 Golob in 2022 | |
| Leader of the Freedom Movement Party | |
| Assumed office 26 January 2022 | |
| Deputy | Urška Klakočar Zupančič |
| Preceded by | Jure Leben |
| Member of the Nova Gorica City Council | |
| Assumed office 2002 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 23 January 1967 Šempeter pri Gorici, SR Slovenia, SFR Yugoslavia |
| Political party | PS (2011–2013) SAB (2013–2022) GS (since 2022) |
| Alma mater | University of Ljubljana |
Robert Golob (born 23 January 1967)[1] is a Slovenian businessman and politician. He is the president of the Freedom Movement Party which defeated the Slovenian Democratic Party led by prime minister Janez Janša in April 2022 national elections.[2]
Early life and education[edit]
Golob obtained his PhD in electrical engineering at the University of Ljubljana in 1994. After his studies, he was a post-doctoral Fulbright scholar in the United States at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.[3][4]
Business career[edit]
In 2004, Golob co-founded an energy trading company GEN-I,[5][6] which is state-controlled,[7][8] and where he remained chairman until 2021.[9]
Political career[edit]
Between May 1999 and June 2000, Golob was the State Secretary at the Ministry of Economic Affairs in the government led by prime minister Janez Drnovšek of the Liberal Democratic Party. In 2002, he was elected to the City Council of Nova Gorica, a position he has held since.[10] In 2011, Golob joined the Positive Slovenia party, founded by the mayor of Ljubljana Zoran Janković.[11] In 2013–14, with the rising tensions within the party between its founder and chairman Zoran Janković and Prime Minister Alenka Bratušek, Golob played a mediating role between the two factions.[12] With the final break within the party in April 2014, he joined the breakaway Party of Alenka Bratušek (SAB), becoming one of its vice-presidents.[13] After the poor performance of SAB in the subsequent 2014 election, winning only four seats, he moved away from politics on the national level, remaining active only at the local level in the municipality of Nova Gorica; he chaired the neighborhood assembly of Kromberk-Loke between 2010 and 2014, remaining one of its members until 2022.[14]
When his mandate as chairman of GEN-I ended in 2021, and after not receiving another one, Golob decided to take an active role in politics again. In January 2022, he became the president of a non-parliamentary green party, Z.Dej and renamed the party to Freedom Movement.[15]
On 24 April 2022, in the 2022 Slovenian parliamentary election, the Freedom Movement party gained the most votes and, according to unofficial results, it won 41 seats in the 90-seat National Assembly.[16]
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- ^ "Assoc. Prof. Robert Golob, PhD. President of Management Board, GEN-I d.o.o." University of Ljubljana Faculty of Engineering. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
- ^ "Preskočil razred, skočil na čelo države". Primorske novice. 25 April 2022. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
- ^ "prof. dr. Robert Golob". Laboratorij za energetske strategije.
- ^ "Dr Robert Golob - Chairman GEN-I". Business Investor Guide.
- ^ "Kandidata za zamenjavo Goloba zavrnjena". www.delo.si (in Slovenian). Retrieved 26 April 2022.
- ^ "Dogajanje v Gen-I blizu vrelišču: lastniki v nov poskus imenovanja uprave". N1 (in Slovenian). 16 November 2021. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
- ^ "Vsak dan prvi - 24ur.com". www.24ur.com.
- ^ "Ekipa".
- ^ "Janković za N1: Robertu Golobu sem pripravljen odstopiti Pozitivno Slovenijo". 9 December 2021.
- ^ "Pozitivna Slovenija: Začasno premirje". 4 October 2013.
- ^ "Poslovno poročilo – stranka Zavezništvo Alenke Bratušek za leto 2014" (PDF) (in Slovenian). April 2022.
- ^ "Kromberk - Loke - Krajevne skupnosti - O mestni občini".
- ^ "Robert Golob elected new head of renamed green party". The Slovenia Times. 26 January 2022.
- ^ "Po 99 odstotkih preštetih glasov zmaga Gibanja Svoboda, v DZ-ju le pet strank". RTVSLO.si (in Slovenian). Retrieved 24 April 2022.