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4 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Surprise left-wing election victory in Slovenia
In Slovenia's early parliamentary elections held on Sunday the newly founded Positive Slovenia party won a surprise victory, emerging the strongest party. The centre-left party led by the mayor of Ljubljana, Zoran Janković, won 28.5 percent of the vote. The conservative SDS party led by former head of government Janez Janša ended up second even though it had been tipped as favourite. The people don't want him at Slovenia's helm again, the left-liberal daily Delo concludes: "It looks like Janković has won because he's the opposite of Janša. The same happened with the current head of government and Social Democrat Borut Pahor three years ago. Janša should have won this election. Everything indicated he would - from the crisis over Pahor's unfortunate coalition to the collapse of the financial markets. Yet he still didn't win. Perhaps because the majority of voters won't forgive him his methods and practices during his time in power? Or because he slipped too quickly into the role of victor in recent days and was too brash about it? Sooner or later the right-wing parties in Slovenia will have to analyse the reasons for their repeated defeats."
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More from the press review on the subject » Domestic Policy, » Elections, » Slovenia
Good schedule for new elections in Slovenia
Following the collapse of the government led by Borut Pahor in Slovenia new elections have been scheduled to take place on December 4. However instead of dissolving the parliament straight away President Danilo Türk has postponed this move until October 21, saying parliament must first complete its tasks. A wise decision, comments the daily Delo: "The government has fallen but the country can still be governed. If there is a dramatic change in Europe's situation in the coming months, Slovenia will be in a position to react. The dates that have been fixed will allow Slovenia to get through this period of general political chaos relatively safely until a new government is formed."
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More from the press review on the subject » Domestic Policy, » Elections, » Slovenia
Slovenia needs reforms
The centre-left government in Slovenia has completed half of its mandate. The daily Delo criticises the government's performance against a backdrop of economic crises and right-wing election victories in Europe: "Crises provide an ideal breeding ground for extremist politics. Europe is changing: the success of the Dutch Party for Freedom, which wants to ban the Koran and close Islamic schools, of the racist Jobbik party in Hungary, which publicly attacks Roma, and now the right-wing populists' entry into the Swedish parliament are all proof of this. The empty space in Slovenian politics, the feeling of powerlessness, of social injustice and hopelessness, the return to old concepts that already led the world into a recession all call for change. The current Slovenian government could design its most important reforms on the basis of these political and social changes in the country."
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More from the press review on the subject » Politics, » Slovenia, » Europe
Stage victory in the Slovenian-Croatian border dispute
The prime ministers of Croatia and Slovenia, Jadranka Kosor and Borut Pahor, on Wednesday signed an agreement for resolving their border dispute in Stockholm. But in the eyes of the daily Delo this is just a partial victory: "The fact that both presidents travelled to the cold North without strong political backing or support from the experts or their people shows that Stockholm was undoubtedly an important victory, but only a stage victory. … Both heads of government will now begin the battle for votes from the opposition and their people, who are a key factor for the success of the project and also for the political survival of both governments."
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