By: Dr Metod Berlec
In recent days, we have witnessed fierce attacks by the left‑leaning media sphere, pseudo‑NGOs, and red trade unions against the emerging centre‑right coalition between SDS, NSi, the Democrats, SLS, and Fokus, while on the other side, the future governing coalition has been confirming its coalition agreement.
Once again, the incredible hysteria erupted, launched by left‑wing actors from all directions, who have spent the past four years comfortably “feeding” at the state trough. They filled their pockets with our taxpayers’ money. Now they are fiercely attacking the emergency development law, despite the fact that it would put more money into everyone’s pockets. For them, a potential centre‑right government is the worst thing that could happen. This is why they are aggressively targeting Logar’s Democrats and Stevanović’s Resni.ca, claiming they have betrayed their voters. But the fact is that the programmes of these two parties, as well as their pre‑election promises, are far more aligned with the programmes of SDS, NSi, SLS, and Fokus than with those of the outgoing extremist left‑wing coalition.
SDS president Janez Janša, as an experienced politician, did not want to leave anything to chance. This is why the councils of all potential coalition parties first decided on joining the new centre‑right coalition, followed on Monday evening by the SDS Executive Committee and Council, which unanimously approved the coalition agreement and entry into the new centre‑right government. Consequently, on Tuesday Janša’s candidacy for prime minister was submitted with the signatures of all MPs of the newly formed coalition, SDS, NSi, the Democrats, SLS, Fokus, as well as Resni.ca. On Monday, information surfaced that President Nataša Pirc Musar, after failing to propose any candidate in the first round, was now prepared to propose a technical prime minister if both major parties, Svoboda and SDS, agreed. Under the constitution, MPs would first vote on the president’s candidate, if she proposed one. It appears that the so‑called deep state, together with Pirc Musar and Golob, attempted at the last moment to block Janša’s candidacy and prevent the formation of a centre‑right government. MPs will most likely vote by secret ballot for the prime minister, the future head of government, already this Friday. If confirmed, the next step will be proposing and approving the ministerial team.
“If this coalition‑building project is successfully completed with the formation of the government, we will offer all opposition parties a partnership agreement for development, for a progressive Slovenia, a developmental Slovenia. Within this framework, we can discuss goals that SDS has long advocated, and which were central in the last election campaign when we spoke of a constitutional majority of reason,” Janša said on Monday. He explained that this includes electoral reform, the establishment of provinces, and judicial reform. Undoubtedly, this also includes the so‑called SKOK mechanism for prosecuting corruption and crime, which we describe in detail in a special article in this issue of Demokracija. And this is why panic has already erupted within the Freedom Movement, because it appears that under the new government, law‑enforcement bodies with a new organisational structure will seriously investigate organised corruption.