President of the Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) Janez Janša he was proposed as a representative for the creation of a new one Slovenian government, with the support of 48 deputies.
Janša's candidacy, in addition to SDS MPs, was also supported by MPs of New Slovenia (NSi), Slovenian People's Party (SLS), Fokus, Democrat Anže Logar, as well as members of the Resnica movement, headed by Zoran Stevanovic, the president of the Slovenian parliament, and that movement will formally remain in the opposition, the Slovenian News Agency (STA) reported.
For the election of the mandate holder, 46 votes of deputies are needed, and the vote could be held as early as Friday (May 22), while the election of the government would follow at the beginning of June.
Janša, who was born on September 17, 1958, will most likely become the president of the new Slovenian government for the fourth time.
The road to the fourth prime ministerial term
He led the government for the first time from 2004 to 2008, and then two more times in the period from February 10, 2012 to March 20, 2013 and from 2020 to 2022.
He was elected as a deputy in the first multi-party elections in April 1990 on the list of the Slovenian Democratic Union (SDZ) and since then he has been elected to the National Assembly (parliament) in all subsequent elections.
He joined the SDS in 1992, and was elected president in May 1993.
In his rich political career, Janša was the first Slovenian Minister of Defense until 1994, when he was removed from his position due to the "Depala vas" affair.
Photo: AP Photo/Darko BandićJanša's candidacy was supported by 48 MPs
What marked his earlier mandates
Janša's first government was marked by accusations of political appointments and restrictions on media freedom, as well as conflicts with non-governmental organizations.
Towards the end of his mandate, in 2008, the political space in Slovenia was marked by the "Patria" affair, related to the disputed purchase of Finnish tanks, for which Janša later ended up in prison.
The Constitutional Court overturned the verdict, and the case was ultimately time-barred.
The second Janša government was put together in 2012, after the winner of the election failed, the then president of Positive Slovenia, Zoran Janković.
Janša's government fell a year later after a vote of no confidence in the parliament.
SDS won the elections in 2018, but then the government was formed by the president of the second-placed party LMŠ (Marjan Šarec), so that after his departure in 2020, Janša managed to form his third government, which faced the corona virus pandemic.
What will the new Slovenian government look like?
It is expected that the new Slovenian government will have 14 ministries, and the most important departments, such as finance, foreign and internal affairs, will belong to the SDS.
In the elections held on March 22, SDS won 28 mandates, one less than the left-liberal Freedom Movement, which led the Slovenian government for the previous four years.
The coalition of New Slovenia, SLS and Fokus won nine mandates, the Democrats six, and the Truth Movement five mandates.
Source: Danas/Beta
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