Slovenian Independence Referendum

Date: December 23, 1990 • Location: Zemun, Serbia

This milestone marked the outbreak and beginning of this historic period, which spanned 1990.

About 88 percent of eligible voters in Slovenia voted to secede from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

An independence referendum was held in the Republic of Slovenia on 23 December 1990. Both the ruling center-right coalition and the left-wing opposition supported the referendum and called on voters to support Slovenian independence.