Slovenia's leftist opposition submitted a no-confidence motion against the centre-right government of Prime Minister Janez Jansa on Friday, and a secret parliamentary ballot is expected next week.
Prime minister Janez Janša |
My fellow Slovenians, dear fellow citizens!
Yugoslavia is gone, now it’s about Slovenia.
Dr. Jože Pučnik, the father of the independent Slovenia, used these words to mark the moment of the most important decision in the history of the Slovenian nation. The time, the only time when people truly and literally wrote their own judgment. And the judgment was majestic, resounding across the world as well as in the soul and heart of each Slovenian. Everyone who circled the option for an independent Slovenia, regardless of their origin, became part of the Slovenian community, part of the nation in the modern sense of the word. As a poet wrote in those days: our souls were captured by ceremonious splendour and our hearts were filled with warmth. We knew what we were, and this was what we wanted to be. We rose, stood tall in the face of everything and, half a year later, after resisting the Yugoslav People’s Army and winning the war for Slove