Jasmina Opec Voroš was elected to the National Council as a representative of local interests (11. electoral unit – Murska Sobota).
In the National Council, she is:
- member of the Interest Group of Local Interests,
- member of the Commission for Social Care, Labour, Health and the Disabled,
- member of the Commission for Agriculture, Forestry and Food.
About the member of the National Council
Jasmina Opec Voroš was born on 2 August 1985 in Murska Sobota.
In 2009, she graduated from the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana as a Zois scholar and obtained the title of a Bachelor of Law. She obtained extensive professional experience in various fields – the law, economy, non-governmental sector, the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia, local community, and State Organisation; she was a member of three different ministerial cabinets. She was a deputy in the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia during the 2011 – 2014 term, where she served as the vice-president of the Committee on Internal Affairs, vice-president of the Committee on Justice, Public Administration and Local Self-Government, member of the Commission for National Minorities, member of the delegation of the National Assembly in the Parliamentary Association of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and president of the Slovenia-Croatia friendship group, among other activities. Throughout her entire term of office, she advocated for state decentralisation, equal development of all regions, and the transfer of institutions and competencies from Ljubljana to all areas of Slovenia. She was named “Pomurka of the year 2013” due to her work in the area of state decentralisation.
For two terms, she served as a municipal councillor in the Urban Municipality of Murska Sobota, including as deputy mayor from 2014 until 2015. She led the Social Co-Council and the Commission for the Youth and initiated a measure of a single lump-sum payment for newborns in the Urban Municipality of Murska Sobota in the amount of 500 EUR. She was a member of the Commission for Welfare and Healthcare and the Commission for Youth Policy with the Association of Municipalities of Slovenia.
Between 2016 and 2020, she was employed at the Youth Centre of Slovenia as the head of advocacy. She dealt with measures for faster and easier empowering of the youth and with intergenerational cooperation and solidarity. She chaired numerous round tables, consultations, and discussions regarding intergenerational cooperation and solidarity and regarding Slovenia’s demographic challenges. She was a member of the Council of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia for Active Ageing and Intergenerational Cooperation and participated in the creation of the Strategy for a Long-Living Society and the electoral programme of the Federation of Pensioners’ Associations within the framework of parliamentary elections in 2018. During the period of operation of the Office of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia for Demography, she held the position of deputy director of the office.
At the invitation of the U.S. government, she spent a couple of weeks in 2018 in the USA, as part of the programme International Visitor Leadership Programme. She was a member of the local electoral commission, vice-president of the municipal electoral commission of the Municipality of Moravske Toplice, and vice-president of the special municipal electoral commission of the Municipality of Moravske Toplice. She was a member of the district election commission and vice president of the Municipal Election Commission of the Municipality of Moravska Toplice. Between 2011 and 2017, she was a member of the assembly of Vzajemna d.v.z.
She is the director of the Institute for Demography and vice-president of the Special Municipal Electoral Commission of the Municipality of Moravska Toplice.
In 2021, she was one of the founding members of the Prekmurci Club in Ljubljana.
She is currently employed at the Government Office for the Support and Integration of Migrants.
Electoral unit 11
Municipalities: Beltinci, Cankova, Črenšovci, Dobrovnik/Dobronak, Gornji Petrovci, Grad, Hodoš/Hodos, Kobilje, Kuzma, Lendava/Lendva, Moravske Toplice, MURSKA SOBOTA, Odranci, Puconci, Rogašovci, Šalovci, Tišina, Turnišče, Velika Polana