Peter Bossman

Peter Bossman ( born November 2, 1955 in Nyive, Ghana ) is a Slovenian politician of Ghanaian origin and mayor of the town of Piran.

Life and career

Bossman is a descendant of a Dutch dealer from whom the name is derived. His father was a personal friend of Kwame Nkrumah and helped build Ghanaian embassies abroad. Peter Bossman therefore grew up in different states of North Africa, Switzerland and the UK. He came in 1977 to Yugoslavia to escape the military government in Ghana and studied by a UN scholarship Medicine at the University of Ljubljana. Originally, he intended to return to Ghana after his studies again, but then learned to know a Croatian fellow student, whom he married and with whom he has three children. To his wife he followed to Piran, where she found work as a doctor. Bossman itself is a specialist in general medicine. Since the 1980s, he worked as a doctor in Koper, but lives in Piran. During the 10-day War, Bossman reported as a volunteer doctor. After the declaration of independence of Slovenia and his naturalization, he joined the party in democratic Socialni (SD), for which he 2002 Chairman of the District Council of Lucia was elected to the City Council in 1998 and Piran.

In the mayoral elections in Piran 2010 Bossman came again for the SD and reached the first round 30 % of the vote, which led to a runoff against the previous conservative incumbent Tomas Gantar. Bossman won the runoff election with 51.4 % of the vote and was thereby elected the first mayor of African descent in Slovenia and the CEECs.