Peter Bossman
| Peter Bossman | |
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| Mayor of Piran | |
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Assumed office 12 November 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Tomaž Gantar |
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2 November 1955 Accra, Gold Coast (now Ghana) |
| Nationality | Ghanaian and Slovenian |
| Political party | Social Democrats |
| Spouse(s) | Karmen |
| Profession | Doctor and politician |
Peter Bossman (born 2 November 1955) is a Ghanaian-born Slovenian doctor and politician. He is currently serving as mayor of Piran, a city and municipality in Slovenian Istria in south-western Slovenia. A member of the centre-left Social Democrats, he defeated the incumbent mayor Tomaž Gantar in the October 2010 mayoral election to become Slovenia's first black mayor. In 2011 he was also appointed to the Committee of the Regions of the European Union.
Bossman was born in Accra, the capital of Ghana (then known as the Gold Coast), on 2 November 1955. Bossman came from a relatively well-off family. His father was a politician, as well as a friend and personal physician of Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's leader from independence. Bossman spent much of his early life in North Africa, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, where his father helped found Ghanaian embassies.
Following a 1966 coup that saw members of the National Liberation Council overthrow Nkrumah's elected government, Bossman was forced to leave Ghana. He was unable to come to Britain, where he had originally hoped to study, and so chose to come to Yugoslavia, originally hoping to study in Belgrade. He was ultimately sent to Ljubljana, however, arriving as a medical student in what was then the Socialist Republic of Slovenia, within Yugoslavia, in 1977. He has said that he "fell in love" with Slovenia when he arrived, finding it "clean and green". While he was studying, he remained politically active, heading an African students' organisation.
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