By: Gašper Blažič
We Slovenians have this strange mindset that we gladly forgive sinful officials – if they are of the “right colour,” of course – even when they do not deserve it. Perhaps this reflex comes from times when officials had to be protected from citizens, instead of the other way around.
You have probably already noticed that the vast majority of the media have been “slicing up” Janša’s fourth government like salami from day one, to use the phrase of one former politician. No one waited for the “first hundred days.” From practically all media and social networks radiates the deep resentment of Golob’s people, because their plan failed – the plan that the former ruling trio would simply continue its mission in the new term, of course with the help of two “trailers,” the parties Democrats and Resni.ca, which did not agree to this plan. The rage of the fallen angels is therefore immense, and the hell of the deep state is rumbling ever louder.
Many will find it pathetic that we so often repeat the most famous quote of the notorious communist official Stane Dolanc. Dolanc, who rose meteorically thanks to his “clan” (for example Lidija Šentjurc) and soon in Tito’s cabinet in some way replaced the fallen Aleksandar Ranković. Be that as it may, it was precisely on the threshold of Tito’s great purge of the “liberals” within the party in 1972 that Dolanc ranted in Split about how the communists would remain in power forever and that we should not think things would ever be different. This mentality deeply spread into the minds of the party youth of the time (including Milan Kučan), who were waiting for their opportunity and they got it. In the meantime, they even “stepped down from power” so they could return stronger – and with Kučan they succeeded. They present themselves to the public as great democrats, and the people fall for their charm, because the last head of the Central Committee knows psychological‑propaganda work inside out, having even worked in it professionally.
The current president of the republic, Nataša Pirc Musar, is certainly the most grotesque example of this kind of official perversity. Fortunately, she is much clumsier than her political mentors. The traffic accident on the last day of July triggered a chain of evasions that, in any normal country, would require an immediate and irrevocable resignation. But we will clearly not see that film here. Even more, Pirc Musar, together with the majority on the Constitutional Court, is trying to do everything to prevent the current government from implementing the programme that received the support of the majority of voters. At the same time, she “holds the line” for those who angrily scream that the current government is the fruit of fraud. Is a parallel branch of power at work? Let us recall that most of the current constitutional judges were proposed by the current president and elected by the previous composition of the National Assembly, in which the current opposition trio then had a firm majority. To elect a constitutional judge, 46 votes are sufficient under the current arrangement. Now you see how well the previous rulers “made the bed” for themselves? Also, at RTVS, where under Golob’s law, supposedly in line with the constitution, civil society allegedly rules. In the SZDL system, of course.
That is why elections are not enough. We need above all active citizens who will at any moment be ready to firmly tell both the president of the republic and the constitutional judges that the country we won in 1991 is not the property of old party chieftains. That is why we must finally carry Dolanc’s curse to the dustbin of history. As soon as possible.