She was elected to the National Council as a representative of universities and higher professional education institutions.
In the National Council, she is:
- head of the Interest Group of Non-Commercial Fields,
- member of the Mandate and Immunity Commission,
- member of the Commission for Education, Culture, Science, Sport and the Youth,
- member of the Commission for International Relations and European Affairs.
About the member of the National Council
Dr Branka Kalenić Ramšak is a professor of Spanish and Latin American literature at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ljubljana. She finished elementary school and classical gymnasium in Ljubljana, graduated and received her master's degree at the University of Zagreb, and received her doctoral degree in literary studies in 1996 at the University of Ljubljana. She taught as a visiting lecturer at various universities, including Aachen, Buenos Aires, Havana, Tokyo, Trieste, Udine, Zaragoza, and Vilnius.
She has published extensively on contemporary Spanish and Hispano-American literature and Spanish Golden Age literature. In her research, she focuses also on literary criticism and the reception of Spanish literature in the context of literary studies in Slovenia.
She has led several projects that introduced Spanish as a foreign language into the Slovene educational system and participated in two important lexicographic projects in which Spanish-Slovene and Slovene-Spanish dictionaries were created. She has been president of the organizing committee of several international scientific conferences and is editor-in-chief and co-editor of scientific journals. From 2013 to 2017, she served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ljubljana. In 2011, the Spanish government awarded her with the Order of Isabella the Catholic for her merits and contribution to cultural connections between Slovenia and Spain.