Od »reformiranega« komunista do »spravitelja« naroda – politična kariera in stremljenja Boruta Pahorja (1986–2011)

The article discusses Borut Pahor’s political career from his first steps when entering the Communist Party to the moment he prematurely ended his mandate as the prime minister of the Republic of Slovenia. By studying a wide range of media reporting, from online articles and interviews to appearances in entertainment shows, the author discerns certain constants in Pahor’s political engagements that put him, as an individual, in a unique as well as outstanding position in the otherwise rather polarised Slovenian political landscape. Due to his proverbial differentness or exactly because of it, his efforts to bring together both opposing political camps, as noted by the author, have been fairly unsuccessful but still appealing to the majority of the public, as demonstrated by numerous public opinion polls in the last two decades as well as the fact that he is the most “trophy- -winning” politician in the history of the Republic of Slovenia.