Slovenian citizen Marko Posavec shared with the public his electricity bills for the month of December in the year 2022, and in the year 2023. In one year, the price jumped by almost 100 percent (from 169 euros to 351 euros).
Prime Minister Robert Golob, who pocketed a 2-million-euro reward for a job “well done”, does not know where to spend his money, while the citizens, whom he previously promised that he would tackle the energy crisis and ensure prosperity, are repeatedly confronted with a harsh reality. How much longer will people put up with this?
According to the latest data from the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, the average price of electricity for households was 14 percent higher than in the second quarter of last year, at 0.220 euros per kilowatt-hour. In the same time period, the price for non-household consumers fell by 1 percent, to 0.213 euros per kilowatt-hour (excluding VAT).
Electricity prices rose by almost 100 percent in one year
But just how much more expensive electricity actually is has been proven by a concerned user of the social media X, who posted last year’s and this year’s bills in order to compare the prices.
“Comparison of last year’s and this year’s electricity bill with the same consumption. A 100 percent increase in one year. If there exist people who are perhaps able to understand this, I am certainly not one of them. The collection of Brussels euros from the bills of Slovenians continues with great speed, according to the current needs of the stargazers,” wrote the X user Marko Posavec.
Not to mention the other significant increases in prices. But this does not worry the former President of the Management Board of what was once vaunted as the cheapest electricity provider one bit, because he has too much money and does not know what to do with it. The story is, of course, completely different in Slovenian households, which can barely pay their monthly bills.
That is how the current government is dealing with the rising prices of energy. Robert Golob‘s government is unsurprisingly losing battles at all levels, including inflation, which is above the European average in Slovenia. All of this has been eating away a great portion of citizens’ incomes for a long time now, but there is clearly still no end in sight.
A. H.
