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Slovenian culture minister resigns after call by PM

Xinhua, April 25, 2016 Adjust font size:

Slovenian Culture Minister Julijana Bizjak Mlakar presented her resignation on Monday ahead of a scheduled vote on her dismissal proposed by Prime Minister Miro Cerar.

Mlakar submitted the resignation at a session of the National Assembly. The vote of confidence in the official has been called by Cerar after she rejected his call to resign over a row concerning the Idrija mercury mine, the Slovenian Press Agency (STA) reported.

Cerar has cited the minister's refusal to implement a government decree to bring the mine under the Culture Ministry as "the last straw".

However, the minister, who refused to implement the decree, argued that the mine was the purview of the economy portfolio, and stressed that Cerar's statements were untrue.

Mlakar is the sixth minister to leave Cerar's cabinet. Until the Pensioners' Party finds a replacement, Gorazd Zmavc, minister without portfolio for Slovenians abroad, will take over. Endit