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Matevž Frangež is currently the State Secretary at the Ministry of the Economy, Tourism and Sport, appointed on 24 January by The Government of the Republic of Slovenia.  He was previously appointed State Secretary at the Ministry of Economic Development and Technology on 1 June 2022. Active in youth and student organizing from a young age, he was a member of the City Council of the Municipality of Maribor from 2002 to 2010. He was elected a deputy of the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia for the 2008–2011 and 2011–2014 terms and then worked for a short period as a State Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office. In 2015, Frangež set out as an entrepreneur. He then took over the strategic communication in the Social Democratic Party in 2019 and was an assistant of the party’s deputy group in the National Assembly.