Pension reform badly prepared

The Slovenes rejected the pension reform because it was introduced too late and poorly prepared, writes the left-liberal daily Dnevnik: "The second half of a legislature period normally means the beginning of the next election campaign period. At the start of the economic crisis many people would have been more ready to renounce certain things than they are now, after three years of political turmoil. The pension reform was ... so clumsily prepared that even such irreconcilable opposites as the union leader Dušan Semolič and [conservative opposition leader] Janez Janša joined forces to oppose it. ... There is no country in the world whose government could win a referendum in which the people had to agree to put themselves at a disadvantage, no matter how popular the government is. And for that reason no other country would think of holding such a referendum."

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