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Slovenia Times
1. January, 2021
Ljubljana – The Modern Centre Party (SMC) council decided late on Wednesday not to endorse Pensioners’ Party (DeSUS) leader Karl Erjavec as candidate for prime minister-designate. The SMC remains open for dialogue and cooperation with all parliamentary parties “in light of constant one-sided provocations” by the ruling Democrats (SDS), the party said.
“The party council members are very bothered by constant one-sided provocations of the senior coalition partner,” reads a press release issued by the SMC after an hours-long council session.
Such provocations run contrary to the coalition agreement and put the SMC in an unequal position, the party said, adding that it would remain open for dialogue, “particularly with those parties whose programme is similar to ours” and who have to step up their efforts when it comes to cooperation.
Slovenia Times
1. January, 2021
Ljubljana – Karl Erjavec, the leader of the Pensioners’ Party (DeSUS) and the centre-left opposition’s candidate for prime minister, plans to push ahead with a vote of no confidence despite being snubbed by the Modern Centre Party (SMC), without whose votes he does not have the majority.
The SMC council decided yesterday it did not support Erjavec, but he said the decision was not about support for him, it was about the policy pursued by the current government.
Speaking for TV Slovenija and POP TV on Thursday, he said he hoped SMC deputies were “mature enough” to realize what their responsibility is and expects things to “clarify” in the coming days.
Slovenia Times
31. December, 2020
Ljubljana – The National Assembly decided in a 50:16 vote on Wednesday that the latest corona crisis stimulus package, passed late last night, cannot be put to a referendum. The decision means that the law was published in the Official Gazette Wednesday evening and will take effect on Thursday.
It comes after the upper chamber of parliament met earlier in the day deciding not to veto the bill in a 29:3 vote even if it had some second thoughts about it.
The decision against the referendum in the lower chamber was opposed by the opposition Marjan Šarec List (LMŠ), the Left and the Alenka Bratušek Party (SAB), which argued that some of the provisions introduced permanent measures which had nothing to do with the corona crisis.
SocDems back Erjavec as prime minister-designate candidate
30. December, 2020
Ljubljana – The opposition Social Democrats (SD) leadership endorsed on Tuesday Karl Erjavec, the leader of the Pensioners’ Party (DeSUS), as a candidate for prime minister-designate. The SD also backed the formation of an alternative government and filing a constructive motion of no confidence in the government.
The SD finds it key for the potential new government to focus on tackling the health, economic and social crises until the general elections in 2022 and to set up foundations for Slovenia’s development up to 2030 as well as boost public services, particularly healthcare and elderly care, SD leader Tanja Fajon said as quoted in a press release issued after a session of SD leadership.