2018 in Slovenia
# 2018 in Slovenia

Events in the year 2018 in Slovenia.

## Incumbents

* President: Borut Pahor
* Prime Minister: Miro Cerar (until 13 September 2018), Marjan Šarec (from 13 September 2018)

## Events

* March 14 – Prime Minister Miro Cerar announces his resignation following complications with planning the upgrade of the Divača–Koper Railway, one of the key infrastructural projects of his government.
* May 13 – national referendum on the Divača–Koper Railway upgrade is repeated, but the new referendum again doesn't reach the prescribed quorum.
* May 24 – The Constitutional Court unanimously upheld the ban of all forms of ritual slaughter, stating that 'the Constitution did not allow easily preventable suffering to be inflicted on animals without a justified cause', and that this provision did 'not disproportionally interfere' with religious freedom.
* June 3 – Slovenian Democratic Party led by Janez Janša wins the majority in the snap parliamentary election.
* September 7 – Aljaž Tower, a symbol of Slovenia, is removed from the summit of Triglav for the first time in 123 years and transported to Ljubljana for repairs.
* September 13 – new government under premier Marjan Šarec is formed after Janez Janša fails to secure a coalition, the first minority government in the history of Slovenia.
* September 15 – after Let's Clean Slovenia 2012, a nation-wide volunteer clean-up effort is again organized by the Ecologists Without Borders society.

## Deaths

* February 26 – Veljko Rus, sociologist (b. 1929).
* March 21– Dejan Bravničar, violinist (b. 1937)
* April 22 – Demeter Bitenc, actor (b. 1922)
* June 8 – Janko Pleterski, historian, politician and diplomat (b. 1923).
* June 25 - Štefka Drolc, actress (b. 1923)
* August 24 - Ciril Zlobec, writer, journalist and politician (b. 1925).
* September 13 - Ivo Petrić, composer (b. 1931)
* October 16 - Lidija Sotlar, ballerina and teacher (b. 1929).
