Slovenia gets first black mayor
Ghana-born doctor Peter Bossman won local elections in Slovenia's coastal town of Piran on October 24, RFE/RL reports.
Monday, 25.10.2010.
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Ghana-born doctor Peter Bossman won local elections in Slovenia's coastal town of Piran on October 24, RFE/RL reports. Bossman thus became Slovenia's first black mayor. Slovenia gets first black mayor According to final results of the run-off election, center-left Social Democrat (SD) candidate Bossman scored a tight victory receiving 51.4 percent of the vote against outgoing Piran mayor Tomaz Gantar, who got 48.4 percent. Bossman, 54, is married to a Croatian doctor and the couple has two daughters. He came to Slovenia in the early 1980s when the country was still part of former Yugoslavia to study medicine. Bossman celebrates (Beta/AP)
Slovenia gets first black mayor
According to final results of the run-off election, center-left Social Democrat (SD) candidate Bossman scored a tight victory receiving 51.4 percent of the vote against outgoing Piran mayor Tomaz Gantar, who got 48.4 percent.Bossman, 54, is married to a Croatian doctor and the couple has two daughters. He came to Slovenia in the early 1980s when the country was still part of former Yugoslavia to study medicine.
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