The Speaker of the National Assembly, Urška Klakočar Zupančič, is becoming more and more disgraceful with every step she takes. The affair she caused with the “boxing match” in the National Assembly has not yet died down, but a new one has already begun when she was photographed in Celje as a dancer from the Moulin Rouge theatre in Paris. Klakočar Zupančič was accompanied there by the argumentative MP Janja Sluga and a member of her cabinet, Inge Kobe.
The photographs were reportedly taken at the Pelikan photography studio in Celje, which the politicians were visiting because they attended the project “Greeting the Birds of Peace” (“Pozdrav ptic miru”), which was organised by the Lava Celje Primary School. Well, someone should explain to the “government and the National Assembly birds” that Moulin Rouge was, at best, a theatre, and at worst, a brothel, and that the fashion of the time is today considered a symbol of the grotesque excess, which was followed by the catastrophe of the First World War.
But the photographs in question were not “leaked” online, as some media reports are claiming, but posted by the women themselves on their social networks. The pictures, of course, did not stand the test of public scrutiny, as they immediately sparked tons of laughter, as well as some serious doubts about the judgement and
common sense of those involved, and especially of the Speaker of the National Assembly, Urška Klakočar Zupančič, who should be aware that the days of the dissolute life are over, at least for as long as her term as a Member of Parliament will last. The well-known political commentator and columnist Tomaž Štih, who goes by the pseudonym “Libertarec” on Twitter, has highlighted the provincial nature of the Speaker of the National Assembly and her intense desire to attract attention in the following tweet: “You know when a low provincial official becomes an MP in the National Assembly and loses her only positive quality – modesty – and the position goes straight to her head, and she starts believing that she is now the star of Ljubljana that people want…” And another Twitter user, who uses the pseudonym “Glas Trebnje” (The Voice of Trebnje), even compared Klakočar Zupančič to a courtesan from the previous century! “Is this a photo montage?” he wondered, adding: “This is supposed to be the Speaker of the National Assembly, comrade Klakočar Zupančič from the Freedom Movement party (Gibanje Svoboda). If the photo is real, then may God have mercy on her! This is what courtesans looked like in the previous centuries!”
Serious concerns about the mental state of the first among the MPs In the latest affair, an insightful online commentator has drawn attention to the fact that Urška Klakočar Zupančič did not undergo a mandatory medical examination by an independent occupational health doctor when she took up her new post in the National Assembly but supposedly requested that her personal doctor send a certificate of her fitness for the demands of her new job. “It all makes sense now,” the commentator wrote. Another user by the username Mateo was even harsher, writing: “Is there really no regulation of forced psychiatric examination for senior positions of authority? Can “our people” really destroy the country in front of the cameras? Is there really no one left in the security institutions who will fight for Slovenia?”
Gal Kovač
