Slovenian community secures one seat in Friuli Venezia Giulia council

Marko Pisani has been elected to the Friuli Venezia Giulia Regional Council as the only member of the Slovenian ethnic minority to make it to the legislative assembly of this Italian region. The other Slovenian councillor, Danilo Slokar, failed to get re-elected in the regional elections on 2 and 3 April.

Bojan Brezigar, the Trieste correspondent for the newspaper Večer, writes that this is the first time ever that the Slovenian minority will have just one representative in the 48-member council of the region which is its home. One time in the past they had as many as five members....