Eva Irgl


Eva Irgl is a Slovenian politician and former TV host, currently serving as member of the Slovenian National Assembly.

Life and career

Eva Irgl was born in Šempeter near Nova Gorica in western Slovenia, then part of former Yugoslavia. She was the daughter of an elementary schoolmaster. She spent her childhood in Vipava, Slovenia. She finished the grammar school in Ajdovščina and studied theology at the University of Ljubljana. During her studies, she had passed an audition for the Slovenian national television. She had hosted a TV show for three years and assisted in a morning programme. She also wrote columns for the Mag magazine, which had at the time a right of centre editorial policy.
In the 2004 parliamentary elections, she was elected to the Slovenian National Assembly on the list of the Slovenian Democratic Party. She was re-elected in 2008, 2011, 2014 and 2018.
As an MP, she is sitting in the following parliamentary committees:
Besides Slovene, she is fluent in English, Serbo-Croatian and Italian.