“Rumours. After they expelled MP Mojca Šetinc Pašek, the counting in the Freedom Movement party (Gibanje svoboda) – with a new drop in support according to the Ninamedia agency – continues. Here is the current situation: 20 MPs are said to be “cemented”, loosely after Tadej Troha, with “elements of a religious sect”; other colleagues call them the Gen-I team,” wrote journalist Mirko Mayer. Once the three rebels decide to leave, at least eight more Freedom Movement MPs are expected to join the independent MPs who do not belong to any political party.
According to journalist Mirko Mayer, there are some 20 orthodox (or “religious”) MPs within the Freedom Movement party, whom the rest call “Team Gen-I”. And it is rumoured that once the first three rebels have made up their minds, a total of eight of the party’s MPs will join the ranks of independent MPs. These three that could start the whole process are said to be the Speaker of the National Assembly, Urška Klakočar Zupančič, Miroslav Gregorič and Mojca Šetinc Pašek.
“If the resignations coincide with Golob’s announced reconstruction of the Slovenian Government, the voting in the National Assembly will cause serious problems in terms of confirmation of the new ministerial team and the existence of the current coalition,” Mayer wrote. The fact the situation in the Freedom Movement party is reaching the point of no return and that there are serious internal resentments and divisions is also evidenced by the public verbal clash between the Freedom Movement’s Maribor MP Lena Grgurevič (orthodox, fanatical) and Mojca Pašek Šetinc, who was expelled from the party. The two had a dispute about former Minister of the Interior Tatjana Bobnar and her testimony before the Commission of Inquiry. Contrary to Grgurević, Pasek Šetinc is convinced that Bobnar had every legal basis for her actions.
Namely, Grgurevič recently posted the following on Facebook: “TATJANA BOBNAR AND HER ‘FIGHT’ FOR THE POSITIONS IN THE POLICE!!
1. On the 22nd of May, Rober Golob mentioned to her during one of their conversations that he expects the removal of the politically appointed Janšaists from their positions and for the illegally dismissed Director of the National Bureau of Investigation to be reappointed (which the court ruled on).
2. Bobnar calmly accepts the position of the Interior Minister, things seem to be fine so far.
3. In November 2022, when her preferred candidate is appointed only to the position of Acting Director-General of the Police, she suspiciously comes up with the claim that the ’pressures exerted on her on the 22nd of May were inadmissible and illegal’! She then reports the Prime Minister to the Commission for the Prevention of Corruption and also presses criminal charges against him.
4. Who did she press charges against during the term of the government of Janez Janša, who did she report to the Commission for the Prevention of Corruption then?
5. She then shares confidential information with the Commission of Inquiry of the National Assembly… On what basis?
6. The Commission for the Prevention of Corruption did not detect any irregularities in the Prime Minister’s actions, the Director of the Slovene Intelligence and Security Agency (SOVA) strongly denies Bobnar’s claims.
7. Pirc Musar, who took Bobnar under her wing, makes a completely uncritical assessment of the situation and the aforementioned inconsistencies as a lawyer, and says that she completely trusts Bobnar. Who would believe such argumentation in court?
8. The fight for obtaining positions in the police is severe. Parties which have been tailoring our lives for the last 30 years are not thrilled about the idea that any changes might happen.
9. The overly-playful and clearly kind smiles that Bobnar and Grims shared at the hearing of the Commission of Inquiry speaks for itself and is very telling.
10. All of this is supported by the constant attacks by the media, which have been drawing money from state and municipal companies for decades. Good news is not being published. Apparently, the party in charge is a thorn in the side of both the ‘left’ and the right eternal politicians, as well as their people in all branches of power.”
To this, Pašek Šetinc responded with: “This is, of course, not true. Tatjana Bobnar, in line with the Parliamentary Inquiries Act and the Classified Information Act, demanded that her testimony before the Commission of Inquiry remain confidential. She had every legal right to share what she shared. And she acted in line with the highest level of integrity. The fact that sensitive information from a closed session of the Commission of Inquiry was leaked to the public is the problem of the President of the Commission and all others who were part of the hearing in question.”
Just like in Hitler’s time: phone screening, sanctions for hanging out with “Jews”
MP Mojca Pašek Šetinc and Robert Pavšič were recently expelled from the Freedom Movement party, and Urška Klakočar Zupančič resigned as the party’s Vice-President. Prime Minister and President of the party Golob explained the decision by saying that Pasek Šetinc and Pavšič were “playing for the other team and scoring own goals.” Their expulsion was meant to strengthen unity in the party. Such “unity” is nowadays also observed at meetings of the North Korean Communist Party, where everyone applauds the “beloved leader” in unison …
Authoritarian tendencies had previously also been shown by Vesna Vuković, Secretary-General of the Freedom Movement party, who is even reported to have checked MPs’ mobile phones in the past. We have also already reported that the party’s PR representative, Andraž Osim, has fallen out of favour with the Freedom Movement’s leadership, specifically Vuković and Peter Majerle. And the reason? He smoked a cigarette with the leader of the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS) parliamentary group, Jelka Godec, and drank coffee with an SDS colleague, a fellow citizen from Maribor.
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