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The Liberal businessman Robert Golob’s Freedom Movement has won three times over Prime Minister Janez Jansha and the Slovenian Democratic Party he leads.
Golob, whose party was founded in January, won 34.5 per cent of the vote in the April 24 election, compared to Jansha’s party, which won 23.5 per cent of the vote, according to the State Election Commission, which counted 98 percent of the vote.
Only three other parties, the conservative New Slovenia, the Social Democrats and the left-wing Levica, received more than 4 per cent of the vote – the minimum required to enter parliament.
Golob is expected to form a majority with the Social Democrats and become the state’s new prime minister.
Jansha, an admirer of former US President Donald Trump, has been accused by the opposition during the election campaign of trying to undermine democratic institutions and media freedom.
Golob, 55, a charismatic engineer, vowed in his victory speech that the results “will enable us to return freedom to the state.”
Since Jansha regained power in 2020, thousands of Slovenes have regularly protested in the streets, saying he used the coronavirus pandemic to restrict the freedoms of residents and the media.
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