Tomaa Marua!Iai

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Toma¿ Maru¿i¿ (born 1932) is a Slovenian lawyer and politician.He was born in Gorizia, Italy. His father, Franc Maru¿i¿ was a renowned local physician and a staunch Slovene patriot and antifascist. During his childhood, the family moved to the suburb of Solkan, which was included in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1947.Maru¿i¿ studied at the Nova Gorica Grammar School. He graduated from law at the University of Ljubljana and worked as a lawyer in Nova Gorica and Koper. During the Slovenian Spring (1988 - 1992), he joined the newly formed Slovene People's Party. In 1993, he was elected by the City Council of Nova Gorica as the first non-Communist mayor of the town, but lost the elections the following year against ¿rtomir ¿pacapan of the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia. From 1997 until 2000, Maru¿i¿ served as Minister for Justice in the coalition government led by Janez Drnov¿ek.