Babrak Karmal befriended fellow inmate Mir Akbar Khyber, who introduced Karmal to Marxism. Karmal changed his name from Sultan Hussein to Babrak Karmal, which means "Comrade of the Workers'" in Pashtun, to disassociate himself from his bourgeois background. When he was released from prison, he continued his activities in the student union, and began to promote Marxism. Karmal spent the rest of the 1950s and the early 1960s becoming involved with Marxist organizations, of which there were at least four in Afghanistan at the time; two of the four were established by Karmal. When the 1964 Afghan Provisional Constitution, which legalised the
Prime Minister of Slovenia is of no effect unless a prospective successor has the support of a majority. The Prime Minister is also President of the National Security Council. Conservatives: Christian democrats: Liberals: Conservatives: Social democrats: Prime Minister of Slovenia There have been eight Prime Ministers of Slovenia, officially President of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia (), since the country gained parliamentary democracy in 1989 and independence in 1991. The Prime Minister is nominated by the President after consultation with the parties represented in the National Assembly. He is then formally elected by a simple majority of the National Assembly. If no