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 …
A Long-Serving MP Has Never Experienced Something Like This Before: “We Were All Liars!” Read More »
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, …
The National Assembly’s Commission of Inquiry for determining the potential political responsibility of holders of public office with regard to the alleged inadmissible political interference in the work of the Police and other competent state authorities, where the coalition has a majority, has arbitrarily decided that Prime Minister Robert Golob does not need to be …
Less than a month ago, the Freedom Movement party (Gibanje Svoboda) assured people that they did not have to worry about the new system of charging network fees, but today, they are trying to paint themselves as the “saviours” with the measures they have taken. Meanwhile, people have been pointing out the consequences of the …
On Saturday, at St Ulrich’s Hill (Sv. Urh), in front of a modest audience of the heirs of the greatest crime on Slovenian soil, a member of the ruling Freedom Movement party (Gibanje Svoboda) made a bunch of controversial and verifiably false and unconstitutional statements, which historian Dr Jože Dežman commented on for the media …
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The regular elections to the National Assembly should be held in spring 2026, but it seems that the centres of power are already preparing for early parliamentary elections. In fact, some pro-government media are already running articles with the headline “What if Robert Golob were to resign?” showing a picture of Prime Minister Robert Golob in …
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The latest findings from the public opinion poll conducted by the Parsifal Agency show that the Freedom Movement party (Gibanje Svoboda) has seen the most significant drop in support compared to previous polls. If the elections were held on the coming Sunday, the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS) would get the most …
Thursday’s discussion by an MP of the Freedom Movement party (Gibanje Svoboda) in the National Assembly shows that even more than 30 years after the break-up of Yugoslavia, a part of Slovenia is still unable to adopt a European attitude towards the three criminal totalitarian ideologies of Nazism, fascism and communism. “I already said in …
Glorification Of The Violent Ideology By The Freedom Movement MP Has Shocked The Public Read More »
The Russian Chapel (Ruska kapelica) has become a kind of litmus test of Slovenia’s attitude towards Russia. What was once a popular event, attended (for the most part) by the political crème de la crème of the left, has turned into a small commemoration attended by only a handful of former politicians and businessmen. Of …
This time, the opposition tried to get the Commission of Inquiry to do at least some of its work before the parliamentary recess, but the Freedom Movement party (Gibanje Svoboda) made it impossible by having their MP Tomaž Lah convene the second meeting of the Commission of Inquiry only in September, ignoring the fact that …
“I cannot understand how it is possible that a Member of Parliament is prepared to go against all laws, against all practices, against all rules of procedure, just to protect his party, to protect the Prime Minister – the President of his party and, of course, the energy lobby, of which he has been a …
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