Slovenia’s New Govt Has Fighting Chance to Restore Normality

Janša's reign has left serious consequences that won't be easily eliminated, however. He placed his own staff in the state administration and drilled an astronomical hole in the budget as a result of wasteful policies, whose main mechanism was borrowing at the expense of future generations.

Now in opposition, he is continuing his schizoid policy. Trapped beyond reality, he doesn't actually believe the elections occurred. He is convinced he has been wronged by agents of the "deep state", an extension of the former communist regime that supports Vladimir Putin's aggression against Ukraine.

People arrive to vote at polling station in Ljubljana, Slovenia, 24 April 2022. Slovenia holds its Parliamentary elections to name a new Government and Parliament for next four years. EPA-EFE/ANTONIO BAT

It's a pathological construct that Janša believes wants to destroy him because he's the only true patriot and democrat. The fact that he has led his party for 29 years, has no critical voice in the party, has lost elections several times, and that the majority of the public sees him as seriously disturbed, doesn't change his belief in his own truth.

At the new parliament's first constitutive session, the right-wing opposition submitted as many as 32 legislative proposals aimed at harassing and obstructing its work, which was in the phase of electing a new government.

This indicates an absence of democratic standards and general political hygiene. Janša is convinced that all the nation's time belongs to him and that he can spend it however he deems fit. Since the election results didn't sober him up, he remains bitter in the right corner of parliament, where he'll be playing the role of an irresponsible opposition that aims to obstruct...