Ljudmila Novak

Born on 1 August 1959, Novak has a university degree in Slovenian and German. She has led the conservative New Slovenia - Christian Democrats (NSi) since 2008. She entered politics as the mayor of Moravče in 2001-2004 and was later elected MEP. Under her leadership, the NSi returned to parliament in 2011, and in 2012 she became minister for Slovenians abroad in the Janez Janša government. Today, she is an MP, running for president on her party ticket and with the slogan President Fullstop.

Marjan Šarec

Šarec is an actor who will turn 40 on 2 December. Since 2010, he has been serving as Kamnik mayor. Before his career in politics, he worked as a journalist at the public broadcaster RTV Slovenija. He is best known in public as an impersonator in political satire shows on TV and radio. He is running with the support of his Marjan Šarec List under the slogan Human. Community. Country.

Maja Makovec Brenčič

The minister of education, science and sport is the candidate of the ruling Modern Centre Party (SMC). If elected, she plans to expand the right to vote to the young as of 16 and introduce a constitutional veto the president would have to prevent new legislation from entering into force. Before becoming minister in 2015, she was a full professor of international business and vice chancellor of Ljubljana University. She also led the council of the National Agency for the Quality of Higher Education. In 2016, she was involved in a scandal for receiving unlawful standby bonuses while serving as deputy dean of the Ljubljana Economics Faculty, but she has returned the money in full. She was born on 25 May 1969.

Borut Pahor

The incumbent president is running for a second five-year term as an independent candidate on voter support. He has, however, been endorsed by the Social Democrats (SD), the party he had headed for 15 years before becoming president. His slogan stays the same - Together. Born on 2 November 1963, he has held all top posts in the country: he was prime minister between 2008 and 2011 and parliamentary speaker between 2000 and 2004. In 2004, he was elected to the European Parliament.

Angelca Likovič

The presidential candidate of the non-parliamentary conservative party Voice for Children and Families is a pensioner born on 27 January 1944. Before retiring, she worked as a teacher and also served as a head teacher of a Ljubljana primary school for 18 years. Between June and December 2000, she was a state secretary at the Education Ministry in the Andrej Bajuk government. As a pensioner she co-founded an association promoting Christian values among school children. She has became widely known in the general public as a commentator in reality shows.

Boris Popovič

The mayor of the coastal municipality of Koper was born on 5 September 1962. He was first elected mayor in 2002, before which he headed the local football club. Has was also a successful football player, car racer and entrepreneur. In recent years, he has spent quite a lot of time in courts and was sentenced to three years in prison in 2014 for abuse of office in the sale of municipal land, but a higher court annulled the ruling and order a retrial that is still under way. In 2009, he got a three-month suspended sentence for defaming a reporter, in 2010 a suspended sentence of a year and ten months for abuse of office, tax evasion and doctoring business documents, and in 2012 a two-month suspended sentence for defamation. He runs on the support of his party Slovenia Forever.

Romana Tomc

The candidate of the opposition Democrats (SDS) will run under the slogan Respect and Cooperation. The MEP for EPP/SDS is an economist and worked at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GZS) for almost a decade. She also worked at the Employers' Association and served as a state secretary at the Labour Ministry. Between 2011 and 2014 she was an MP and vice speaker of the National Assembly for two years. Tomc, a mother of two adult children, was born on 2 November 1965.

Suzana Lara Krause

The candidate of the non-parliamentary People's Party (SLS) was born on 15 March 1979 in Ptuj. Although she has a university degree in Slovenian and Russian, she currently works as a sole trader. She has been active in politics since 2010, mostly within the SLS, where she chairs the Slovenian Women's Alliance. She is married and has two children. Krause believes Slovenia needs a president who can "work with her hands and has the heart in the right place".

Andrej Šiško

Šiško was born on 24 April 1969 in Koper, but later moved to Maribor, where he is known as an active member of the Maribor football club ultras Viole. He was a co-founder of several illegal organisations and in 2007 he was sent to prison for attempted murder. He was escorted to prison directly from a debate hosted by a local TV station and featuring candidates for MPs. Šiško was released from prison in 2009. Today he is a publicist and author of several books. He was fielded by the United Slovenian Movement, a non-parliamentary party which he chairs.