#SLOVENIA: Robert Golob Forms Government

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Parliament elected Robert Golob prime minister by a 54 to 30 vote on Wednesday, just over a month after his green Freedom Movement won the general election in a landslide on a pledge to reform politics in the country.

Immediately after being sworn in, Golob submitted his cabinet line-up to parliament with hearings of ministerial candidates before the parliamentary working bodies set to start this weekend.

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#SLOVENIA: Conservative Ally of Hungary's Orban To Become PM

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Following the departure of the leftist Slovenian government on Jan. 27, Janez Janša, an ally of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, has managed to form a coalition that will finally put him in the prime minister's seat after having won the 2018 elections.

Although Janša's Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) party won the 2018 election with the largest number of seats (25) in the 90-seat national assembly, he was unable to form a majority government in the fragmented legislature, which currently has nine parties and representative each of the Hungarian and Italian ethnic minority.

Eventually the former actor and comedian Marjan Šarec, the leader of the second-placed party with 13 MPs, formed a minority left-wing government, which collapsed last month.

Following a month of horse-trading, President Borut Pahor assigned Janša to form a new government which has forged a four-party coalition with 48 votes, thus the approval of the new government in parliament should be a "foregone conclusion".

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#SLOVENIA: Anti-Immigration Party Wins Largest Number Of Votes In National Election; Set To Take Power [world politics news]

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The anti-immigration Slovenian Democratic Party is set to be the biggest party in parliament following Slovenia's election, an exit poll suggests. The election gave SDS almost 25% of the vote, double that of its nearest rival, a center-Left anti-establishment party. However, four left or center-left parties polled around 10%-12% each, which would make it tough for the SDS to form a coalition.

Pictured: SDS Leader and former PM Janez Jansa and his wife, after voting

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#SLOVENIA: Gov't Begins Erecting Border Fence With Croatia To Keep Out Migrants

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The Slovene government has ordered the erection of a barbed-wire fence along Croatia's border to keep out migrants seeking refuge in Northern Europe, saying it wanted better control over the surge of migrants passing through as they make their way across Europe. Around 180,000 people, many fleeing war in Syria and Afghanistan, have entered Slovenia since mid October

#SLOVENIA: Parliament Adopts Same-Sex Marriage, Bucking Eastern European Trend

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Parliament has voted 51 to 28 to allow same-sex couples to marry, bucking a recent trend against same-sex marriage  in Eastern Europe. Slovakia and Hungary banned gay marriage in 2012, Croatian voters rejected it in 2013. In January, Macedonia's parliament voted 72 to 4 to reject same-sex marriage.

#SLOVENIA: Center-Left PM Candidate Miro Cerar Would Reconsider Privatization of Airport, Communications Company

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Miro Cerar, a college professor who formed a new Center-Left party just last month ("Miro Cerar's Party") and who is leading in the polls to become the next Prime Minister of Slovenia, says he would reconsider the current caretaker government's plans to privatize some public utilities.

SLOVENIA: Second Party to Quit Crumbling Coalition Gov't [world politics news]