By: Celjski glasnik
Since the government of Janez Janša will apparently fulfil its pre‑election promise and cut off funding for NGOs from which the state and citizens have no benefit, these organisations are now entrenched in their trenches.
With their actions, they are now trying in every possible way to portray Janez Janša’s government as an authoritarian administration, a government that would use repression to subdue and control all citizens. They are therefore directing all their efforts into misleading the public by claiming that the government is creating political police.
The most interesting part of this story is that four years ago, when Robert Golob announced a purge of the police that would operate entirely according to the demands of his then‑government, no one spoke of political police. Today, when the Janša government wants to introduce changes that would allow oversight of state‑owned companies through parliamentary inquiry commissions, they claim it is political policing. The greatest irony is that the foundations for such procedures were laid precisely by their own Urška Klakočar Zupančič.
For Info 360, MP Andrej Poglajen explained how the referendum proponents are misleading the public and citizens. As he clarified, no one will, nor intends to, inspect citizens’ SMS messages; the goal is to clarify the operations of state‑owned companies and any potential siphoning of public money.