Golob Launches Second Round of Post-election Talks with Party Leaders in Slovenia

Robert Golob (BETAPHOTO/STA/Bor Slana)

The president of the Movement Sloboda (Freedom), which won the most votes in the March 22 parliamentary elections in Slovenia, Robert Golob, continued the post-election negotiations on April 1 with the leaders of the Social Democrats, the Democrats, the Left and the Vesna and Resnica (Truth) parties.

The right-wing New Slovenia once again rejected the invitation to the talks, while the Slovenian Democratic Party, also right-wing, of Janez Jansa, has not been invited, the STA agency has reported. The agenda of the meeting included the foundations for urgent resilience-building measures due to deteriorating geopolitical circumstances, and for the fight against corruption.

According to STA, the common denominator of the second round of these informal talks, intended primarily to explore the possibilities for forming the new government, will be sought in these two exact fields. The draft of the foundations for a systemic fight against corruption has been prepared by the Movement Sloboda. The path to the 46-seat parliamentary majority will not be easy.

Golob, however, stated after a meeting with President of Slovenia Natasa Pirc Musar on March 30, that “more important than mathematics” was the parties’ participation in the preparation of crisis measures. In that way, he said, trust can be built between the parties. In the March 22 elections, Golob’s left-liberal Movement Sloboda won 28.63 percent of votes, or 29 seats in the parliament, while the right-wing Slovenian Democratic Party of Janez Jansa won 27.95 percent, or 28 seats.