By: Peter Jančič (Spletni časopis)
“How does he view the still unanswered and unexplained allegations in the public sphere related to his performance as Prime Minister?”
This week, Prime Minister Robert Golob (Freedom Movement) will be questioned by NSi MP Aleksander Reberšek during a regular parliamentary session. Golob excused himself from responding today.
Subject: Request to reschedule the Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia’s response to oral parliamentary questions during the 35th regular session of the National Assembly
Dear Sir/Madam,
In accordance with the fourth paragraph of Article 241 of the Rules of Procedure of the National Assembly, we inform you that the Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia, Dr Robert Golob, will participate in the 35th regular session of the National Assembly on Monday, October 20, 2025. Due to categorised official obligations abroad, his participation in responding to parliamentary questions will take place via MED9, but the Prime Minister will be physically present.
We kindly request and propose that this scheduling constraint be taken into account when planning the timeline of the regular session of the National Assembly, and that the Prime Minister be allowed to respond to oral parliamentary questions during the session on Wednesday, October 22, 2025.
Kind regards,
Luka ŠPOLJAR
HEAD OF CABINET
The Prime Minister is known for not answering questions in Parliament or elsewhere. What we usually witness are promotional appearances meant to distract from substantive issues.
The parliamentary session will begin with the announcement of Jani Prednik’s resignation, which will allow the National Electoral Commission (DVK) to propose a replacement for the next six months.
Over the past few years, many peculiarities surrounding Golob have remained unanswered. The most bizarre is his foreign bank account opened in 2018 at Raiffeisen Bank, allegedly under a false identity, though the bank denies this. Together with Vesna Vuković, former Secretary General of the Freedom Movement, he has yet to explain why her company, founded while she was a journalist at the state-run Siol.net, received €103,000 from GEN-I. Also controversial is the largest political purge in RTV Slovenia’s history, which Golob carried out and which has resurfaced in recent days. The matter reached the Constitutional Court, allegedly to prevent further blocking of premature dismissals and appointments of Golob’s personnel. Even EU Commissioner Věra Jourová, from Golob’s political group, concealed the true purpose of her visit for years, abusing her position. Documents censored the fact that the visit aimed to discuss judicial decisions, until the court, following a lawsuit by Milan Zver, ruled that the Commissioner could not hide the reason for her trip to Slovenia’s Constitutional Court. The European Commission eventually disclosed the “secret” after several years.
MP Aleksander Reberšek will highlight that integrity is defined as the expected conduct and responsibility of individuals and organisations in preventing and eliminating risks that power, office, authority, or other decision-making competencies are used contrary to law, legitimate goals, and ethical codes.
Zvonko Černač from SDS announced a question about the role of state, supervisory, and financial institutions in prosecuting and uncovering money laundering. Eva Irgl (independent) will raise concerns about safety and trust in rule-of-law institutions. Milan Jakopovič from the ruling Levica party will ask about legalising shorter working hours “to allow companies that recognise the benefits of reduced working time to implement it easily, without administrative costs.” This question fits into the pre-election package we have seen lately, as ruling parties, facing a potential electoral defeat after years of raising taxes and contributions, are now handing out bonuses, toll exemptions, and other incentives.
On the portal Necenzurirano, which is entangled with Golob’s Freedom Movement through payments from GEN-I to Vesna Vuković’s parallel company, her past as a journalist at Siol.net, and personnel overlap (Tomaž Modic works both as a journalist for the portal and as an advisor to Freedom MP Tamara Vonta in Parliament; the wife of Primož Cirman, Petra Bezjak, heads the government’s communications office UKOM), they are once again targeting my son today, trying to divert attention from purges in the media, police, companies, and other corrupt issues surrounding the Prime Minister.
I have already responded to their dirty, deceitful insinuations, which aimed to discredit me as a journalist and a person, claiming I work for a party and politicians and am therefore bribed. In their effort to “save soldier Golob” with false accusations, they even dragged my son into it.
Surprisingly, Freedom MP Tamara Vonta, formerly a journalist and later paid by GEN-I, praised the propaganda activities of the Necenzurirano portal, whose journalist is paid as an advisor in Parliament. They feel no shame for doing exactly what they falsely accuse others of doing.
Like this:
“Are you not ashamed that you do not even consider the fact that you are actually paying a journalist in Parliament from a portal that smears others with accusations of being paid by politicians? That is the height of hypocrisy, projecting onto others exactly what you yourself are doing.