(ANSA) - LJUBLJANA - Klavdija Markez is Slovenia's new education minister, on a vote of 46 to 16 in Parliament. Soon after the election, the new minister stated that ''the responsibility that you put on my shoulders is huge. But I am confident that in the end I will be led by good sense, consensus, social dialogue, and, last but not least, by my heart''. Klavdija Markez is MP of the largest party in the coalition, the Smc led by premier Miro Cerar. She replaced Stanka Setnikar Cankar, who resigned. This resignation was due to political pressure and came after local media reported that, in addition to her college professor salary, the former Minister had received more than 600,000 euros for freelance work done over the past 10 years, mostly in her office at University, where she worked on a permanent basis.

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