Political newcomer Robert Golob defeated three-time Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa in elections on Sunday in a nation split by bitter political divisions over the rule of law.
Golob’s Freedom Movement, which he launched in January, has built on anger with Jansa’s regime in the former Yugoslav state.
The opposition accuses Jansa of having tried to undermine democratic institutions and press freedoms since he returned to power in 2020.
With almost all the votes counted in the nation of about 2 million people, Freedom Movement stood at 34.5 percent of the vote compared with 23.6 percent for Jansa’s Slovenian Democratic Party.
“Our objective has
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia — Only a few months ago, Robert Golob was virtually unknown in politics, didn’t belong to any party, but had a clear goal: to remove Slovenian right-wing populist Prime Minister Janez Jansa from power and stop a democratic backslide in the tiny Alpine state. On Sunday, the Freedom
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