not feasible at the time, he refused to uphold the idea of an independent Slovenia until the outbreak of the Ten-Day War. He then endorsed Slovenia's decision to break from the Yugoslav Federation. In 1992, he ran for President of Slovenia with the support of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDS), but received less than 2% of the vote. He later claimed that he had been fooled into accepting the candidacy: he believed, according to his account, that the party had really accepted an economically and politically liberal program, whereas in reality, he claimed, it remained strongly linked to the former communist establishment. In fact, as subsequent polls showed, the great majority of the Liberal Democratic Party's voters voted for Milan Kučan in the presidential elections. Sirc later sharply criticised both Janez Drnovšek and Milan Kučan, accusing them of hindering the development of an Open Society in Slovenia. In the late 1990s, he collaborated with the writer Drago Jančar and historians Vasko Simoniti and Alenka Puhar in staging an influential exhibition on human rights violations in communist Slovenia called Temna stran meseca (The Dark Side of the Moon). In 2004, he was among the co-founders of the liberal conservative civic platform Rally for the Republic (). In the 2000 and 2004 parliamentary elections, he publicly supported the Slovenian Democratic Party. In May 2010, he became a member of the Slovenian Democratic Party. In his later years, Sirc lived in Glasgow's West End and regularly visited his homeland. Books Between Hitler and Tito (autobiography, 1989) Economic Devolution in Eastern Europe (1969) The Yugoslav Economy Under Self-Management (1979) What Must Gorbachev Do? (1989) Political Morality in Yugoslavia (1996) See also Boris Furlan Angela Vode Titoism Communist Party of Yugoslavia Liberalism in Slovenia Mitja Ribičič Pavle Gantar References External links 1920 births 2016 deaths People from Kranj Politicians from Ljubljana Ethnic Slovene people Liberal Democracy of Slovenia politicians Slovenian Democratic Party politicians Yugoslav economists 20th-century British economists British classical liberals University of Ljubljana alumni Academics of the University of Glasgow Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Yugoslav Partisans members Yugoslav dissidents Yugoslav emigrants to the United Kingdom