Slovenia's opposition in disarray

The lawyer Miro Cerar cannot vie for the post of head of a new government in Slovenia because he lacks support from the country's divided opposition parties. The opposition would dearly love to depose Prime Minister Janez Janša with a vote of no confidence, but it is too weak and disunited to do so, the left-liberal daily Delo comments: "When the coalition partners left the government following the accusations levelled by the anti-corruption authority, Prime Minister Janša jeered that these 'heroes' should start collecting signatures to introduce a vote of no confidence and topple the government - if they could get their act together to do so. ... The parties simply aren't in a position to find a solution to the political crisis: they can't agree on a no confidence vote, a new head of government, a transitional government or any other kind of government. The situation is absurd. The opposition has almost a two-thirds majority in parliament, but it is proving very difficult to find a replacement for the current government."

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