After The Elections of 2000
Due to a disagreement over the election legislation, Peterle left the Slovene People's Party shortly after its unification with the Christian Democrats and joined the newly founded New Slovenia – Christian People's Party. In the elections of 2000, both of Slovenia's conservative and christian democratic parties suffered a defeat against Drnovšek's Liberal Democracy of Slovenia, while the Slovenian Social Democratic Party assumed the undisputed leadership of the centre-right opposition.
In the 2004 elections to the European Parliament, Peterle was elected for New Slovenia, a member of the European People's Party (EPP). In March 2006, he was elected as Vice President of the European People's Party for a three-year term after recovering from cancer in April 2003.
In November 2006, he announced that he will be running for President of Slovenia in the 2007 presidential election. He was considered the front-runner before the first round of the election, but ultimately lost in a landslide to Danilo Türk in the second round.
He is a founder and current President of the group MEPs Against Cancer (MAC).
| Political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Chairmen of the Executive Council Dušan Šinigoj |
Prime Minister of Slovenia 16 May 1990 – 14 May 1992 |
Succeeded by Janez Drnovšek |
| Preceded by Dimitrij Rupel |
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia 25 January 1993 – 31 October 1994 |
Succeeded by Zoran Thaler |
| Preceded by Dimitrij Rupel |
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia 7 June 2000 – 30 November 2000 |
Succeeded by Dimitrij Rupel |
| Party political offices | ||
| Preceded by Peter Kovačič Peršin |
President of the Slovene Christian Democrats 1989–2000 |
Succeeded by office abolished |
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