Ljubljana, Slovenia (BETAPHOTO/NEVENA ZARIC)
A parliamentary election took place in Slovenia on March 22, with 1,695,196 citizens of the former Yugoslav republic casting their ballots for the members of the tenth sitting of the parliament.
This was the tenth parliamentary election since Slovenia became independent. The ruling liberal left Freedom Movement of Prime Minister Robert Golob and the right-wing Slovenian Democratic Party of Janez Jansa were being given equal odds to win.
Aside from these two parties, opinion polls showed that five more parties should win seats in the parliament -- two from the right and two from the left side of the political spectrum (the New Slovenia and Anze Logar's Democrats of the center-right, the Left and the Social Democrats) and the anti-system party Resnica (Truth).
Slovenian voters voted for 88 members of parliament, while the Italian and Hungarian ethnic minorities get one MP each. The elections were held according to the proportional method. The terms in electoral units are awarded using the Droop quota, on the condition that the ticket won at least four percent at the national level
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