Milan kucan biography

First President of Slovenia (1991–2002)

Milan Kučan (pronounced[ˈmíːlaŋˈkúːtʃan];^[1][2] born 14 January 1941) is a Slovenian former politician who served as the first President of Slovenia from 1991 to 2002. Before being president of Slovenia, he was the 13th President of the Presidency of SR Slovenia from 1990 to 1991.

Kučan also served as the 7th President of the League of Communists of Slovenia from 1986 to 1989.

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Early life and political beginnings

Kučan, one of five children, was born in a teachers' family. His parents were Koloman Küčan (1911–1944) and Marija Varga (1917–1975). He was raised in the village of Križevci, located in the largely agrarian border region of Prekmurje in the Drava Banovina of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (present-day Slovenia).

His father Koloman died during World War II.^[3] Kučan's family spent World War II in occupied Serbia, where over 58,000 other Slovenians were resettled from Slovenia by Milan Kučan is the former President of Slovenia, Club de ... CEKOK