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Archives for October 4th, 2004

Sunday’s Parliamentary Election Results
(with 96% of the vote counted)
Party % of the Vote Parliamentary Seats
SDS 29.15 % 29
LDS 22.84 % 23
ZLSD 10.20 % 10
NSi 8.81 % 9
SLS 6.84 % 7
SNS 6.33 % 6
DeSUS 4.02 % 4

(source)

A few points of interest:

1) None of the polls taken last week were accurate. All of them put the ruling LDS in front, with the exception of a Delo poll, which put the opposition SDS barely ahead. As it turns out, the SDS won convincingly. So much for polls.

2) The SLS, whose president had a close encounter of the Croatian kind in a disputed border area recently, will now be part of the ruling coalition. This will make future negotiations between Croatia and Slovenia more interesting, to say the least.

3) Arguably the biggest winner of this election is Dr. Dimtrij Rupel, who was sacked in July from his post as foreign minister, quickly joined the opposition, and now finds himself back in the saddle again. We’ll see how things go from here. In the meantime, congratulations to the winners and best of luck to the new government!

Posted on Monday, October 4, 2004 to Slovenia ¦ Comments (12)