Ljubljanski župan dr. Ljudevit Perič

slovenian

2017

volume 17, issue 2

Zgodovinsko društvo dr. Franca Kovačiča v Mariboru
(Obvezni izvod spletne publikacije)

In this piece the author presents the life and work of the mayor of Ljubljana dr. Ljudevit Perič, who is an interesting, unique political character in Slovenian socialist movement in Ljubljana and Slovenia. He led a coalition for municipal election in Ljubljana in December 1922, called the Working People's Union (ZDL) and became mayor of Ljubljana after its success. The coalition was comprised of communists, the Ljubljana faction of the Socialist party of Yugoslavia (SSJ), called Zarja (Dawn), which withdrew from SSJ, and the Workers union of SLS, which was led by Christian socialists. The Working people%s Union won the election with a concrete social program and rushed to implement it after the election victory. ZDL and dr. Perič planed other activities, but Slovenian communists returned to the sectarian revolutionary strategy in the spring of 1923 and withdrew from ZDL. Dr. Perič lost the majority in the city council. In January 1924 there was a government dismissal of the city municipal council and a new government commissar, liberal dr. Krejči replaced Perič.

15.10.2021