Slovenian election - Miro Cerar has resigned

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A legal hurdle means that a September referendum that approved a 1-billion-euro railway project (no pocket change in a small country like Slovenia) has been annulled, supposedly after the YES side led by him wasn't honest enough with voters. (must...not...draw Brexit comparisons) Also, he was getting pissed off with his coalition partners, the SocDems and the OldPeople Party for being snakes.

Anyway, people familiar with Slovenia may know that the centre-liberal-left is notoriously fickle/ Previously represented by the dominant party the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia in the 90's (which hilariously ran Slovoj Zizek of all people in its first Presidential campaign), their election defeat in 2004 led to the parties collapse and the centre-left wondering aacross the board to find new guys. In 2008, the previous minor post-communist Social Democrats won under Pahor. They were confonted with the credit crunch, and were miserably defeated by trying to pass an increased pension age via referendum. They were replaced by Ljubljana Mayor Zoran Janković's Positive Slovenia, who won a plurality but was too crooked to find any coalition partners, causing his party to go into oppositio and him to hand over the reigns to Alenka Bratušek, who took the PM-ship in 2013 after the collapse of the right-leaning five-party coalition government . However Janković got pissy at being ditched, took back control of PS and Bratusek was ditched forming her own party. Both PS and Bratusek 's ZaaB failed miserably in 2014, with the centre-left going for genial technocrat guy Miro Cerar of the SMC (no prizes guessing what "MC" stands for). Anyway, Cerar has done nothing explicitly wrong, but nontheless his party has dropped like a stone nonetheless. Initially it looked like the left votes were going for the SocDems (Still chugging along), but they have recenetly rallied around Marjan Šarec's List, who narrowly lost the last Presidential election to incubent Borut Pahor. Other parties on the left include Bratusek's party (which has outlasted PS, even managing to win seats in 2014), the pensioner paert DeSuS and socialist Left (previously the "United" Left, but changed the left after a schism)/

The centre-right is dominated by the Slovenian Democratic Party, which is itself dominated by the most controversial politician in the country Janez Janša. Initially a socdem party that mdoeled itself after Solidarity, Jansa (leader since 1993) took the party in a populist right direction, frequently labeling his opponents as being communists and such; as well as stoking irredentist claims over Croatia. Always dogged by allegations of being crooked and of being involved in weapons smuggling, but is still in control of his party. (In 2014, he ran from prison) Hasn't really managed to benefit hugely from the anti-migrant fever, although he deeply tried. Other parties on the right include social conservatives DSi, the peasant party the SLS (which fell narrowly sub-threshold last election), the "United Right" (formed as an alliance between two new Soccon parties, one of which was literally called "God" lmao) and far-rightists SNS.

Currently LMŠ  (Šarec) is winning in polls (high teens), followed by SocDems and SDS with NSi, Left, SMC, DeSuS all chugging around 5% and Bratusek's party, the SNS, the United Right and SLS all sub-threshold.

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Genial centre left Third Way technocrat. Talks about reducing bureaucracy, reform of courts, largely against privatisation of telecoms/ports etc, balance the budget within X years, "pension reform", raising the election threshold etc. The centre left in Slovenia defines itself in opposition the populism of Jansa.