By: Dr Vinko Gorenak
I am critical of the coalition, as you already know. I am also critical of the EU, as you already know. The current EU, as it is today, will undoubtedly collapse.
I am critical primarily because Europeans are simply declining, and foreigners with a different culture and mentality are coming. To start this contribution, I cannot ignore the words of Aleš Hojs, the SDS candidate for EU Parliament. This is what he said at the SDS convention: “Pythagoras’ theorem has 12 words, the Lord’s Prayer has 66 words, the Ten Commandments have 179 words, the US Declaration of Independence has 1300 words, and the US Constitution has 7,818 words, while EU regulations on cabbage have 26,911 words.” This says it all and more about the EU. We can only hope that the EU will lean significantly to the right after this year’s elections; otherwise, there is no help for it.
Now let’s move on to our coalition. Order must be, even if it is bad, as the proverb goes. The inspector who conducted a tax audit on January 17th, 2024, at 13:10 for a certain taxpayer was probably well aware of this. The taxpayer had €2.63 more in the cash register than the total of the change and the interim cash register closing. Allegedly, a fine followed. Can you imagine €2.63 too much in the cash register? Madness.
Another entrepreneur was fined €3000 by tax inspectors because his tax cash register was incorrect with the actual time. There was a 7-minute delay, the taxpayer corrected the error in front of the inspector and adjusted the tax cash register to the actual time, but the inspector was unforgiving. A fine of €3000, of course, followed.
The double standards of the coalition are a special problem. Days ago, the media extensively reported that the former director of the protocol facility Brdo gave a discount to Janez Janša’s family for staying at Villa Zlatorog in Bled. This “significant problem” was also investigated by the Commission for the Prevention of Corruption (CPC). However, when the employees there spoke up and said that Janez Janša was the only one who paid for accommodation, while other prime ministers before him did not pay anything for their stay, left-wing media stopped reporting on it.
Salaries in the public sector are supposed to be public, as the legislation dictates. When the former Minister of the Interior, Aleš Hojs, publicly disclosed the salaries of police officers a few years ago, there was an uproar throughout Slovenia, claiming that he should not have done that. However, nothing happened as he acted in accordance with the law. Salaries of public servants are public as they are financed by all taxpayers. Still, different rules apply to the privileged here as well. When journalist Peter Jančič recently requested information about the salaries of Supreme and Constitutional Court judges, he received an unusual response. The President of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Slovenia, Miodrag Đorđević, and the President of the Constitutional Court, Matej Accetto, rejected his request. The reason? It is absurd, as it would supposedly reveal the judges’ length of service, which they consider a personal and protected piece of information. Do you not think they are taking us for fools?
A significant amount of printing ink and newsprint was used for the story that SDS borrowed money from a Bosnian citizen a few years ago, even though it was repaid immediately once it was discovered that the loan was provided unlawfully. Today, when SD vacated its villa on Levstikova Street in Ljubljana, obtained under extremely suspicious legal circumstances, and moved to rented premises on Nazorjeva Street in Ljubljana, everything is silent. SD established the May 1st Institute, which leased the villa on Levstikova Street for €13,500 per month and pays slightly less for the premises on Nazorjeva Street. The mentioned institute does not disclose the source of its funds. This is undoubtedly an entirely illegal financing of the SD political party.
If, in the above text, you replaced SD with SDS, the building of SD on Levstikova Street with the SDS building on Trstenjakova Street, Slovenia would run out of newsprint, ink, and probably more. It is evident, therefore, that in the coalition, they deceive and lie to us at every turn.
Perhaps an assessment of the situation in the coalition. Golob’s Coalition is comparable to the cable car on Vogel. Somewhere at the top, the brake failed. The cable car without brakes is flying towards the bottom. Occasionally, a passenger falls out, intentionally thrown out here and there, and the remaining passengers bite each other for survival. To be continued.