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Katarina Kresal, Slovenia’s Interior Minister,  succeeded to push through an amendment to end the 18-year saga of the country’s so-called “erased” citizens. After the country's independence in 1991 some 20,000 people have been without legal status mostly because they did not apply for it. Therefore they lost a number of rights such as social, civil and political.

The erased had citizenship of other republics of the former Yugoslavia and until now were required to register as “foreigners”. Now they can apply for residence permit in Slovenia.

The deletion of thousands of people from the country’s permanent residence registry is widely considered to be one of the gravest human rights violations in independent Slovenia.

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