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A surprising turn in Slovenia. The Prime Minister's party is fading into the background


According to the National Electoral Commission of Slovenia, Janez Jansza's Slovenian Democratic Party won 29 percent. votes, which translates into 29 seats in the 90-person National Assembly.

In second place with 28 percent. and 28 seats in parliament was the Freedom Movement of the current Prime Minister of Slovenia, Robert Golob. The coalition of the New Slovenia, Slovenian People's Party and Focus parties won nine seats, the Democrats and Social Democrats won six seats each, and the Left and Spring coalition and the Resni.ca civic movement won five seats each.

The exit poll published earlier showed that the greatest support was to be obtained by Robert Golob's Freedom Movement (30 seats), followed by former Prime Minister Janez Jansza's Slovenian Democratic Party (27 seats).

Tenth elections in the history of independent Slovenia

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.

Ashley Davis

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