Pact with the Left raising eyebrows within and outside coalition

The agreement on project cooperation for 2019, which is to be signed before the National Assembly is to vote tomorrow on the supplementary budget, sets out priorities for the Left that the Marjan Šarec government has pledged to implement, such as tackling precarious forms of employment, or housing policy.

Speaking on the sidelines of the parliamentary plenary dedicated to the supplementary budget today, Luka Mesec, the leader of the Left, said that the agreement had been two months in the making, to be agreed with all the government departments concerned. Mesec expects the accord to be signed on Wednesday.

However, some of the coalition partners have expressed their misgivings, in particular after an MP for the Left, Miha Kordiš, bragged on his Facebook profile that the party had "made out a big bill for our support for the 2019 budget".

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