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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“This was clearly a previously-agreed upon and staged creation of a state of chaos at the pre-election show by the Constitutional Arch Coalition parties, which is actually a disgusting political abuse and political pressuring of the public RTV,” journalist Jože Možina commented on the move of the parties of the Constitutional Arch Coalition – namely, …
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Ladies and gentlemen, the final convention of the Slovenian Democratic Party in the campaign for the 2022 National Assembly elections took place in Medvode on tuesday. The entire winning SDS team for the elections to the National Assembly gathered in Medvode, and the main speaker was the President of the Slovenian Democratic Party and the …
“This is probably the best, the most successful, the most efficient, the best-run government, with brilliant ministers (most of them) and also effective in terms of the results it has achieved. We are talking about results that, in my opinion, are most obvious in the field of foreign policy,” the former President of the Constitutional …
“Today, people are responding mainly to an unjust judiciary, mentioning the second-class nature of ‘ordinary’ citizens and wanting the rule of law to apply to everyone equally. There is much praise for the work of the current government. Namely, the success of this government’s work is visible in every municipality and the citizens are satisfied …
