Prime Minister Golob's party won 30 seats in the 90-seat National Assembly of Slovenia, and in second place was the Slovenian Democratic Party of former Prime Minister Janez Jansza with 27 seats, according to the exit poll.
According to the poll, the right-wing New Slovenia party, the Social Democrats, the social democratic Left, the Green Spring, the center-right Democrats and the Resni.ca civic movement will also enter parliament.
Elections in Slovenia. Before the vote, the Prime Minister issued a warning
Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob warned ahead of the vote that the country's “democracy and sovereignty” could no longer be taken for granted. His opponent, three-time prime minister Janez Jansza, said the elections were tantamount to a “referendum on whether the nation can regain its state.”
Sunday's elections were the tenth in the history of Slovenia, independent since 1991. By 4 p.m., 859,909 voters, i.e. 50.73 percent, had cast their votes. with approximately 1.7 million citizens entitled to vote.
Polling stations were open from 7 to 19. Slovenians elected 90 deputies to the National Assembly, of which 88 deputies are elected in a proportional system in eight electoral districts, and two additional seats are reserved for the Italian and Hungarian national minorities.
