A Ninamedia poll has been circulating that spreads provable lies about the actions of Janez Janša’s previous governments. Not only that — it is clearly running a negative campaign against the SDS president ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections. Given how it is designed, the poll serves as a tool for crafting pre-election propaganda for
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At a time when Slovenia is facing increasing challenges in the field of occupational health and safety, the Freedom Movement (Gibanje Svoboda) and the Left (Levica) parties now seem keen to make matters even worse. They want to ban testing for THC in the blood during regular medical examinations. This move, which the proponents are
After Tuesday’s 14th extraordinary meeting of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry, which is investigating possible political responsibility for impermissible interference in the work of the police and other competent authorities, Andrej Poglajen pointed out that the Commission’s chairman, Aleš Rezar, was dragging out the procedures. The meeting, which was closed to the public, focused only
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The deterioration of democracy in the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia continues. MP Andrej Hoivik of the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS) was reprimanded for his discussion points when he drew attention to the mockery of Slovenian pensioners. In the end, though, the Committee approved the referendum on the Law
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“At a recent session of the National Assembly, MP Alma Intihar of the Freedom Movement party (Gibanje Svoboda) showed what the ruling party really thinks of people who are fighting for their rights,” the largest opposition party – Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS), expressed its criticism, which cannot help but be shocked
On Monday, Prime Minister Robert Golob said in the National Assembly that the construction of 2,000 public rental apartments will start in Slovenia this year. However, the data show that this was a claim that is not true. The Prime Minister made the remark after MP Andrej Poglajen of the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska
Once again, democratic debate was trampled on in the National Assembly, as the Chair of the Committee on Health, Tamara Kozlovič (the Freedom Movement party – Gibanje Svoboda), closed the debate before the rest of the participants had a chance to take their turn, and the opposition MPs from the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska
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Member of Parliament Lena Grgurevič has become a symbol of the brutality, callousness and ignorance of the politics of the Freedom Movement party (Gibanje Svoboda). The political terror patented by the latest incarnation of the new faces has no precedent in Slovenian politics. At almost every hearing where Grgurevič is the Chair or member of
“The current Government of the Republic of Slovenia, including the incompetent Minister of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food, is clearly about to deliver one last blow to the Slovenian farmer. Alongside doctors, farmers are also a class enemy for this government,” wrote MP Jelka Godec of the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka
This week has brought a new milestone in Slovenian parliamentarianism. At a meeting of the Committee on Justice of the National Assembly, coalition MPs voted to silence the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS) MP, Zvone Černač. They were very bothered by his criticism of the judiciary, which (according to their political folklore)
Thursday’s extraordinary session of the Committee on Justice of the National Assembly will undoubtedly remain in many people’s memories for a long time to come. It was the first time in history that members of the coalition had taken the floor from a Member of Parliament by vote. There were also numerous interruptions of Slovenian
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At the end of October, the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS) parliamentary group requested an extraordinary session of the National Assembly’s Committee on Culture to be convened, in order to discuss the extremely poor situation at the national media outlet, Radio-Television Slovenia (RTVS). But the debate did not actually take place. Instead,