Slovenian parliamentary election, 2018

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With 99.15% counted.

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This is a mess, but it always is in Slovenia.

[greenhert]

Final results:

SDS 25 (+4)
LMS 13 (n/a)
SD 10 (+4)
SMC 10 (-26)
The Left 9 (+3 compared to United Left's 2014 performance)
NSi 7 (+2)
SAB 5 (+1 compared to ZaAB's 2014 performance)
DeSUS 5 (-5)
SNS 4 (+4)

The Slovenian People's Party, which only missed the threshold by 0.05% in 2014, drops to 2.63%. Slovenian Greens only managed 1.07%.

[Foggy]

Jun 3, 2018 17:03:06 GMT Georg Ebner said:

Also as always a low participation in the cities - bad for the Left.

That doesn't surprise me. I was in Ljubljana on election day in 2011 and saw lots of posters but couldn't spot anyone who looked like they were off to vote (or had just voted)... and turnout was a healthier 65.6% across the country on that occasion. Then again, it was hardly a terrible result for the Slovenian left that year either, especially compared to now. 

[greenhert]

My analysis: alansgreenthoughts.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-slovenian-general-election-of-2018.html

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Neither Party of Alenka Bratušek founder Alenka Bratušek or DeSUS leader & Foreign Minister Karl Erjavec got re-elected despite their parties clearing the threshold. The reason is the rather bizarre quirks of the Slovenian electoral system (especially with regards to Bratušek).

www.total-slovenia-news.com/politics/1378-on-political-parties-that-entered-parliament-without-their-leaders

[Georg Ebner]

The "parties" of Sarec (LMS), Cerar (SMC), Bratusek (SAB) want to form 1 centrist party.

A midleft coalition is - as always in Slovenia... - highly likely.

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www.total-slovenia-news.com/politics/1494-tonin-elected-speaker-of-slovenian-parliament-feature