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Marta Kos, Slovenian Ambassador, Writer and Politician, * 28th of June 1965.

She is a former journalist, but she later joined politics and diplomacy. She was an ambassador of Republic of Slovenia in Germany and Switzerland.

In June 2022 she announced the candidature for the president of the country.

Career
She visited Faculty of Social Sciences University of Ljubljana. Later she worked as a journailst of the sport section RTV Slovenia and as a correspondent RTV from Germany and a correspondent of Deutsche Welle.

For few years she was also the vice-chairman of GZS.

Political career
From journalism Marta Kos went into politics as a director of Goverment Office for Information and as a Spokeswoman for the Goverment. In the time of Goverment of Alenka Bratušek she was appointed as a Slovenian Ambassador to Germany in 2013. In 2016 the German magazin Diplomatisches Magazin picked her as the Ambassador of the year.

Kos was also the Slovenian Ambassador in Switzerland, but she later resigned, beacuse of the different looks on leading the Embassy after the change of the Goverment.

In 2022 she joined the Slovenian political party The Freedom Movement, since April 2022 she also is one of the vice-chairman of the party. On the 28th of June 2022 she announced that she would be running as the President of Slovenia.

Personal life
Marta Kos was a Yugoslavian and Slovenian recorder in Swimming. She is a Co-author of many books, like "Politično komuniciranje" and "Države in svet".

Marta is a sister of Drago Kos.