By the time our centenarian had reached seventy, the still socialist Yugoslavia began to dissolve. The already delicate federal system became increasingly unstable and political control in individual republics began to waver. In Slovenia, there was no longer a monolith party with its organisations, but fragmented power that continued to break up further (the youth organisation called the Association of Slovenian Socialist Youth was one of the first opposition "parties"). The demands for pluralism and systemic changes were becoming increasingly more resolute and the Slovenian Socialist Assembly adopted numerous constitutional amendments to the Slovenian Constitution in September 1989, thus providing a suitable groundwork for gradually attaining independence and a multi-party system. Then, it also adopted suitable voting legislation and called for the first post-war democratic elections.

At the elections in April 1990, in addition to some former social and political organisations reformed into parties, new parties also ran, combined into a coalition called Demos. Their support combined, these parties received the majority of votes and formed the Government. Political life was developing in the spirit of a multi-party parliamentary democracy. On 25 June 1991, the Slovenian Assembly adopted three key independence documents, on the basis of which Slovenia became an independent and sovereign country.

Democratisation was followed by the declaration of independence and then a brief, yet difficult and an uneasy war, the third war in the life of the centenarian (War) happened. Thanks to successful activities in the war and by means of adequate diplomatic and political actions (From the Brioni Declaration to the Badinter Arbitration Committee), after a brief moratorium, Slovenia gained international recognition and began to independently join international organisations.