The first parliamentary committee in session will be the Education, Science, Culture, Sport and Youth Committee, which will interview doctor of political sciences Jernej Pikalo, proposed for education, science and sports minister; and Ljubljana culture commissioner Uroš Grilc proposed for culture minister at 10 AM.

At the same time, the Justice, Public Administration Committee and the Interior Affair Committee will scrutinise the candidate for interior affairs and public administration minister Gregor Virant, the leader of the Citizens' List, and candidate for justice minister Senko Pličanič, an associate professor at the Ljubljana Faculty of Law. Both served in the outgoing Janez Janša government before their Citizens' List left it.

At 4 PM the Economy Committee will talk with experienced businessman Stanko Stepišnik, proposed for economic development and technology minister, and the Defence Committee with defence minister candidate Roman Jakič. Jakič has already come under fire from the Democrats (SDS), which deem him unfit for the office because he used to oppose the establishment of the Slovenian Army in the early 1990s.

Dejan Židan, the candidate for agriculture and environment minister, who served as agriculture minister for a short period of time in the Borut Pahor government, and medical doctor Tomaž Gantar, who is expected to return to the Health Ministry, will be heard by the Agriculture, Forestry, Food and Environment Committee and the Health Committee, respectively, at 7 PM.

Expected to draw a lot of attention is the hearing of the prospective new finance minister Uroš Čufer, who will appear before the Finance and Monetary Policy Committee on Tuesday morning. A political unknown, Čufer has worked for the NLB bank, whose many bad loans raise the question of his potential involvement in them. At the same time Igor Maher, project manager at a real estate and spatial planning consultancy, will present his plans for the the Infrastructure and Spatial Planning Ministry.

The Commission for Slovenians Abroad will lend its ear to the candidate for minister for Slovenians abroad, Tina Komel, while a hearing of Anja Kopač Mrak, the prospective new minister for labour, family, social affairs and equal opportunities, will follow.

Komel, a member of the Italian community, has been hailed by representatives of the Slovenian ethnic minority in Italy and Austria, while her predecessor, Ljudmila Novak of New Slovenia (NSi) said on Saturday it would be more appropriate for the Office for Slovenian Abroad to be run by an ethnic Slovenian.

Novak's statement was condemned by Komel's Positive Slovenia last night as "discriminatory" and "unacceptable". "Such a statement does not belong in European and tolerant Slovenia, and we strongly condemn it," they wrote.

If Komel is appointed, she will be the first member of the Italian minority to become a minister in a Slovenian government, the daily Primorske novice noted on Saturday. Coming close to such a top office was only Franco Juri, who used to serve as state secretary in the Foreign Ministry in the 1990s.

The daily added that it was possible that the controversy over Juri's appointment could repeat with Komel, but hoped that she would be be judged on the basis of her action rather than nationality.

Taking the floor last will be Karl Erjavec, who will try to convince the Foreign Policy Committee that he deserves to return to the Foreign Ministry, which he left as his Pensioners' Party (DeSUS) recently quit the Janez Janša-led coalition.

In line the with the rules of procedure, the committees need to inform Bratušek of their opinion within 48 hours after the presentation. She then has three days to propose potential replacements, who would then have another three days to present themselves to the relevant committees.