By: G. B.
It appears that Robert Golob has sent invitations for talks to all parties except SDS, saying he invited only “democratic parties.”
It is expected that the current coalition partners, SD and Levica, as well as Vesna, will attend the meeting. According to STA, SDS did not receive an invitation, while the party Resni.ca will still consider whether to participate. The Democrats of Anže Logar said, even before the invitation arrived, that they would respond to any potential invitations to talks on a principled basis. NSi, meanwhile, announced only on social media on Monday that they still hope for a centre‑right coalition.
Such a coalition could be formed by the SDS leader Janez Janša, who had said before the election that he no longer wished to lead a weak government. The SDS executive committee analysed the election results and next steps on Monday afternoon. They are expected to present their conclusions at today’s press conference, and it is also expected that they will announce whether they might request a recount of ballots at certain polling stations or challenge the results in some other way.
The Democrats of Anže Logar will respond to Svoboda’s invitation, which invited all parties except SDS to a Friday meeting on forming a development coalition, the party confirmed for STA. Today they also carried out their first analysis of the election results, and in the coming days these will be further examined within the party’s bodies.
The Democrats of Anže Logar, who entered the parliamentary elections for the first time, received 6.69 percent of the vote according to partial unofficial results, which earned the party, founded only a year and a half ago, six seats in the National Assembly.
The result is far below expectations for the party and its president Logar, who had optimistically aimed for 20 seats or more. However, Logar said on Sunday, while expressing disappointment, that the future of Slovenia should be decided by those who received the most votes, but that the party would respond to any invitation to talks.
The party’s MPs could, with their votes, decisively influence the possibility of forming the next governing coalition. This possibility is likely being considered by the president of Svoboda and prime minister Robert Golob, who on Monday invited all parties except SDS to Friday’s talks on forming a development coalition.
The newly elected parliamentary group has also met. Among the newly elected MPs on the party’s list, Logar himself is not included, nor did the party’s vice‑president Eva Irgl win a seat, nor the current MP Tine Novak, who enabled Logar to form a group of unaffiliated MPs in the outgoing term by leaving Svoboda, nor the party’s vice‑president Janez Demšar.
Among the better‑known names, the president of the party council, Tadej Ostrc, was elected, along with Tea Košir, the deputy mayor of Loški Potok Barbara Levstik Šega, Robert Potnik, Franc Križan, and Mojca Žnidarič, who served as an MP for SMC between 2018 and 2022.
Already on Monday, the party wrote on social media that in the National Assembly they would be “the voice of all who want a normal and successful Slovenia.” They added that they would not abandon their values or their programme. “Slovenia deserves better than what we are seeing today,” they wrote.