“Slovenia has always had good relations with Russia; however, during the government of Janez Janša, we experienced a shift towards the United States of America and distancing from Russia – at least externally,” is what Marta Kos, the Vice-President of the newest left-wing party, the Freedom Movement (Gibanje svoboda), told the media outlet Žurnal24 a …
Possible Russian meddling in the Slovenian elections was detected when an NGO, believed to be a special-purpose vehicle for avoiding campaign financing rules for the SvoboDA party, offered free taxi rides to voters in their stronghold Ljubljana. The SvoboDA was registered a few weeks before the election, and its financing is not transparent. The party …
Ukraine is fighting a stronger enemy than it, but the West, at least when it comes to aiding arms and military equipment, stands firmly by its side. However, there are exceptions. Until recently, for example, Germany avoided sending weapons that would be useful to Ukraine in the war with Russia. The story of 5,000 old …
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One child in Slovenia is suspected of having fallen ill with hepatitis of unknown origin, Mojca Matičič, an infectologist at UKC Ljubljana hospital, told the press. Further test results are yet to come in, but the child’s condition is good. She said that scientists are yet to determine what causes the disease, which has been …
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Political analyst Matevž Tomšič does not expect the Freedom Movement to have major problems forming a government given that it can pick among several coalition partners and govern with only one other party if necessary. “He’ll be able to avoid blackmail or setting of conditions since everyone will be replaceable,” Tomšič, a professor at the …
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President Borut Pahor and Prime Minister Janez Janša congratulated Emmanuel Macron on being elected the president of France for a second term in Sunday’s run-off of the presidential election. Both believe Slovenia and France will continue with their good cooperation, noting the importance of working together to tackle current challenges and issues. STA
The coalition New Slovenia (NSi) secured third place in the election and leader Matej Tonin declared the party would likely be in the opposition in the next term, where it would be constructive as Slovenia is facing many challenges. “New Slovenia is not afraid of challenges that are ahead of us and we will, most …
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The incumbent MPs for the Italian and Hungarian minorities, Felice Žiža and Ferenc Horváth, secured re-election on Sunday. Žiža got 60.8% of the vote to beat Maurizio Tremul among the members of the Italian community who cast their ballot. In the Hungarian community, Horváth got 58.3% of the vote ahead of Mihael Kasaš (23.2%) and …
“If this will be the actual number of seats we get, we will have equalled the party’s best result in history and significantly increased the number of votes and won in districts we have never won before,” said the departing Prime Minister Janez Janša in a post-election statement for the media. According to him, the …
The biggest losers in Sunday’s elections to the National Assembly are the parties of the so-called Constitutional Arch Coalition (the left-wing parties of the current opposition): the Social Democrats and the Left party barely crossed the parliamentary threshold, while the Party of Alenka Bratušek and the List of Marjan šarec are a thing of the …
Twenty-seven deputies from the parliamentary group of the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS) have managed to get into the National Assembly. We are publishing a list of all MPs from the SDS parliamentary group, which includes the new names in parliament. The elections have shuffled the cards quite well, and the composition …
The departing Prime Minister Janez Janša, the leader of the Democrats (SDS), congratulated the relative winner of the general election, Robert Golob, and his Freedom Movement party in his initial reaction to the election outcome. He assessed that the SDS will come out stronger of this election due to a higher number of seats in …
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