- Michael M.: Too much going on. Life in flux, etc..
- Sunshine: Wow, I was soooo happy to see a new post in my rss reader. I was hopping this is already the comeback! :(...
- gandalf: Did you only get caffeine through Dr.p or did you drink coffee as well? I’m interested, since...
- neeka: nine kilos… wow… :) happy holidays to you, michael, and to all your loved ones! veronica
- m: It was a bargain. No strings attached.
Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Maribor, Slovenia.
Portoroz, Slovenia.
• AlienMelon
• Burger.si
• Heck
• Izklop
• si.blogs
• Sloblogi
• Blogorola
• Natalija Verboten
| 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!
Comments
Comments for this post are closed.
Damn .. y? .. i don’t know. Must say i didn’t vote cause I have no bloddy idea what any1 promisess to do. Anyway .. this are going to be the same i guess.
Politicians are still going to have SKY HIGH salaries & od nothing all the time.
HOPE i’m wrong this time..
Damn again .. typo accured
“things are going to be the same i guess. ”
sorry
Hi,
If it’s not too much trouble, could you tell us a little about the parties and who’s likely to end up in the governing coalition?
Eyeballing that list, I see 88 representatives, which means 45 are needed to form a government. Yes? So, unless the two big parties form a coalition — which is unlikely, apparently? — it will take three, or perhaps even four, parties to make a government.
So how is this likely to play out?
curiously,
Doug M.
Parliament has 90 (high paid
seats. 2 are reserved for minorities - one for Hungarian and one for Italian representative.
You need 46 to form a government, and right coalition (SDS, NSI, SLS) has 45. It is a deadlock. Unfortunately it all depends on SNS (Slovenian National Party) - which is nationalistic and populistic party with leader who is (was) also very anti-clerical. But he said that he wants in and that he wants to be Minister for culture.
Oh, and I forgot. NSI is basically catholic party (aka old values,we are holier than you morals, God über alles attitude etc.).
So the idea that they would go in coalition with SNS is quite - amusing.
Since Slovenia provides 2 seats (at taxpayers expense) for its minorities, the new Slovenian government should demand and get reserved seats for the Slovenian minority in Italy and Hungary. If not, then Slovenia should get rid of these seats. Its called equality.
Maybe DESUS (the pensionists’ party) will enter the coalition again, since it is in their interest to influence the social security reform.
How did Masa Merc fare?
Thanks, Maribor je nor. Very crazy, indeed.
Who is Zmago JelinÄ?iÄ? Plemeniti?
Somebody no serious prime minister would have in the government.
His SNS (Slovenian National Party) is extremlly nationalistic left wing party.
Zmago has a dirty past. He was one of those criminals UDBA hired for her secret operations. In 1970s he stole some precious old arms from the National Museum and was caught. Instead of going to prison he became an UDBA collaborator. He was spying among the Slovenian emigrants. His secret name was Padalec (paratrooper).
He has plenty of other sins too.
Andreja
The SNS (Slovenian National Party) is not a left wing party - its a right wing party. As for the sins of its leader, well all political leaders have skeletons in their closet.
One thing I like about the SNS is that it is not afraid to speak its mind - to say things that are not “politically fashionable”. It also fights for Slovenia’s interests and stands up for the rights of Slovenians. Isn’t that what we elect politicians to do?
After hot discussions and problems lately I found that my opinions match with that ones of SNS, so they got my vote.