Janez Janša

Janez Janša

Slovenian politician (born 1958)

Ivan Janša, better known as Janez Janša, is a Slovenian politician who served three times as a prime minister of Slovenia, a position he had held from 2004 to 2008, from 2012 to 2013, and from 2020 to 2022. Since 1993, Janša has led the Slovenian Democratic Party, which has emerged as the pre-eminent Slovenian right-wing party. Janša lost his fourth bid for prime minister in April 2022, his party was defeated by the Freedom Movement party.

Also known as...Ivan Janez Janša, Ivan Janša, and Janez (Ivan) Janša