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

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I bet he's happy to swap the political aspect of the one setting for the other.

B.R. said...

He also had a pretty eventful political life pre-election though, having served as ambassador et al....