Today, Janez Jansa, SDS president, described Slovenia’s main problems as a candidate for the new Prime Minister. Here are the highlights:
“… It is all about less bureaucratization and about decentralization. … An ordinary citizen can only do what is prescribed and when he comes to solve his problems somewhere, he is asked where he has a legal basis for it. … And today, in this regard, Slovenia is not a society or a state of personal civil and entrepreneurial freedom, but all this is drastically limited… ”
“… Ljubljana is suffocating in traffic today. A city with less than 300.000 inhabitants has greater communication problems than most European cities or world cities with 3 million people. Because 130, 140 thousand people (…) flock to this centre every day (…) Millions of working hours, as well as hours of life, are lost in these columns and nowhere to see any action so far that would start to change that problem… the coalition that we made up, pledged that all new institutions, if they were created when they emerged from the demographic fund, would be located outside the centre…. “
“And the key for that, to making decentralization a strategic project that takes real steps and that is to build quality infrastructure throughout the country. In this context, it is especially digital because in the future more and more jobs will be tied to this infrastructure, so the program that the new European Commission has regarding the digitization of Europe is, to a large extent, the program we need to do, that in Slovenia it will be possible to take faster steps towards decentralization. “
“The demographic problem is not social. Family policy is not social policy; family policy is an investment policy for the future. All the related measures are crucial to this country’s future. Of course, this problem also motivates young people for leaving. There are a lot of things that need to be done to stop this trend. … Directly, when it comes to the young generation, the housing problem is a key issue and in this connection we have a number of concrete measures in the coalition agreement to solve it… That we are obliged to finally establish a demographic pension fund…. ”
“The fact is that throughout human history and civilization it has been known that only economic growth, that is, the creation of new value, can be a lasting basis for prosperity … So, only economic growth can be a lasting basis for prosperity and creating an environment for economic prosperity is one of the key the challenges facing the Slovenian state. “
“But when it comes to public / health /, it should not be public in the sense that it is public, but if it is still bad, just that it is public, it should cost whatever it wants, that it should be public so that the veins can be supported, whether blood transfusion doses are significantly or even three times more expensive than in the neighbouring country, because in the end we get a public one where the first-class can use all the services of that public, but those at the back of the species never get their turn. And unfortunately in some cases we have a situation where we are close to it. For this reason, competition is also needed in public health, in a country that is essentially a central pillar of public health and public education. There is no quality without competition.”
“The primary task of the defence system is the defence of the country, and at the moment we have a unit that is incapable of performing this task and if it goes on, we will not be able even to bluff again in two years. Therefore, at least a temporary thawing of military service is necessary. … According to public opinion polls, there is more than two-thirds of the support here in the Slovenian public, but it is clear that as it was when Slovenia had this system, as an independent state, the possibility of civil service for those who have a conscientious objection and no one will be forced to bear arms. “
“In the time left in this term, ahead of Slovenia is also the Council of Europe leadership … In fact, in the coming years, it will also be at a time when Slovenia will have more responsibilities, if you want me to simplify it very much, in defence of the Lisbon decision as the basis of the European Union, which is now legally and formally valid and which enables the relative equality of all the Member States.. «
“Our door to participation in the common good remains open to everyone else. We do not exclude anyone. We do not promise miracles, but we will provide work and effort for the common good. “