By: Moja Dolenjska
MP Alma Intihar from Robert Golob’s party, Gibanje Svoboda, said during a parliamentary committee meeting – where they discussed the collected signatures for the referendum and the related vote scheduled for May 11th, 2025 – the following:
“There was this older guy standing by the booth, missing a few teeth, and he smelled a bit.”
Her statement sparked a wave of outrage on social media. Among the many angry reactions, one reads: “An MP, a sociopath of the Svoboda and the ruling coalition, is mocking people whom Robert Golob has driven into poverty – left without healthcare and without dentists, waiting in endless queues, unable to afford private medical services. Few people are this vile!”
Let’s not forget: today, more than 58% of pensioners receive a pension below the poverty risk threshold, and as many as 52,000 pensioners receive less than €500 per month. (source)
And who is Alma Intihar? An academic painter living in Radovljica – where, incidentally, locals hardly know her. In parliament, she is mostly seen as someone who just presses the voting button on command. She spent her childhood in Ivančna Gorica, near Stična (as she notes herself), where her father taught math and physics at the Stična high school, and her mother taught music, according to her profile on the Gibanje Svoboda website.
Until now, very few had even heard of her. She is known as an extremely passive MP. She “made headlines” last fall when she asked Minister Luka Mesec if MPs could also have the right to disconnect – apparently due to severe burnout.
Video: Intihar