Slovenians go to polls, opposition party expected to win
Slovenians vote on Sunday (June 3) in an early election in which veteran right-wing leader Janez Jansa looks set to emerge on top after consolidating his lead in the last days of the campaign.
About 1.7 million eligible voters will choose between candidates from 25 parties with the latest opinion polls indicating that the SDS will win, with up to 24.5 percent of the vote.
“It seems clear that the SDS will win but everything else about this election is unclear because the question is whether the SDS will be able to form a government coalition,” Meta Roglic, a political analyst of the daily Dnevnik, told Reuters.
According to polls the SDS will need to form a coalition with at least two other parties to gain a majority in the 90-seat parliament. But so far most other parties that are likely to enter parliament said they would not go into government with the SDS, which has the open support of Hungary’s nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
According to a Mediana poll published by daily newspaper Delo on Friday, the center-left List of Marjan Sarec, which has never before run for parliament, may emerge as the second largest party with about 8.2 percent, followed by the Party of Modern Centre of the outgoing Prime Minister Cerar.