Several of our sources have confirmed that it might Tanja Fajon, otherwise a former journalist of RTV Slovenia, to be returned to her workplace with her former employer. The public relations department at RTV Slovenija neither confirmed nor denied our information. Fajonova is currently on vacation.
We have learned that Fajonova is supposed to return to the third program of Radio Slovenia ARS, where she was employed even before the beginning of her mandate as a member of the European Parliament in Brussels. Unofficially, Fajonova has already taken an interest in re-employment procedures, but has not yet initiated this procedure. In her case, they were, similarly to Mojci Šetinc Pašek, former members of Parliament and TV Slovenija journalists, rights and obligations from the employment relationship at RTV Slovenija in abeyance.
When asked if this information is true, RTV answered: “In relation to the question about Tanja Fajon, we clarify that the provisions of the Act on Members of Parliament apply to persons who had a suspended employment contract during the performance of parliamentary or ministerial functions. Article 37 of the Act stipulates that a deputy has the right to return to work within three months after the end of his term of office. The provisions of this law also apply mutatis mutandis to ministers.”
From journalist to MEP and minister
55-year-old Tanja Fajon is a graduate journalist with postgraduate studies in international politics (in Paris and Brussels) and management (IEDC Bled), she writes on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She worked as a journalist at Radio Glas Ljubljana and at the newspaper Republika, and from 1995 she was employed at RTV Slovenia. She was a correspondent for RTV Slovenia in Brussels for eight years, and in 2009 she was elected to the European Parliament for the first time on the list of Social Democrats, and later again in 2014 and 2019. From 2020 to 2024, she was also the president of the SD party.
