It seems that the path from slandering one’s own homeland to the betrayal of the country by the proud successor of the League of Communists, Tanja Fajon, is not very long. For some time now, she has been trying very hard to slander Slovenia’s reputation in Brussels and paint the picture of the rule of law in Slovenia deteriorating sharply due to the government of Janez Janša being in power. Now, however, she has added the final straw to her actions and written that she will insist on the implementation of the rule of law conditionality in the European Parliament. The proverb “Who needs enemies with friends like these?” has certainly been brought to a whole new (inter)state level by Tanja Fajon.
We have previously already reported on the schizophrenic statement made by the leader of the SD party, Tanja Fajon. Namely, this time, she was concerned by the Eurobarometer data, which shows that Slovenians have the lowest confidence in vaccination among all of the EU countries. She is, of course, also partially to blame for this situation, so her concern is all the more ignorant. In addition, the Eurobarometer showed that Slovenians do not trust the plan for spending the EU recovery funds – with Prime Minister Janez Janša noting that Fajon is writing about how worried she is, but at the same time, she is also threatening to hinder the investment of our common EU funds in the European Parliament. “This is as low as it gets,” he remarked. MP Alenka Jeraj reminded everyone that in the next ten years, we will spend 2 billion euros on investments in health care – is this really a cause for concern, or should we be more worried about Fajon’s secret intentions, which some have already describer as high treason? Obstructing the drawing of the EU funds that are intended for investments in new hospitals, homes for the elderly, schools, kindergartens, roads, and the environment, is a petty act, said Minister of the Interior Aleš Hojs.
In addition to her practically proverbial concern, Fajon also expressed her intention to insist that the European Parliament initiate the regulation on the conditionality of respect for the rule of law. Meaning that she will try to hinder the investment of our common EU funds – namely, she has been trying hard for a while now to show Brussels that the actions of the current government are leading to the deterioration of the rule of law in Slovenia. “How can someone who has the ambitions to lead Slovenia publicly sabotage their own country?” many are wondering about Fajon, and not for the first time, at that. Unfortunately, Fajon is not the only one trying to harm her own homeland – among those who have also hindered the approval of Slovenia’s recovery and resilience plan, worth 2.5 billion euros, was another important Slovenian, the European Commissioner for Crisis Management, Janez Lenarčič.
However, in the case of Fajon, the whole thing is even worse, as she is convinced that she is capable of leading the government – she even said so in an interview with Dnevnik, and at the same time ensured that she knows how to assert Slovenian interests and her policy. Well, she obviously has a rather skewed perception about Slovenian interests, or perhaps this was just another one in the long line of her empty promises, which she constantly uses in her interviews. We asked Fajon what her reaction is to all of these accusations – and if she decides to respond, that would pleasantly surprise us.
Sara Kovač
