Slovenia’s parliament approves right-wing Janez Jansa as prime minister

Approval of populist erstwhile person is simply a displacement for the EU state that was precocious tally by a wide government.

Slovenia’s parliament has voted to bring backmost right-wing person Janez Jansa arsenic premier minister, aft his past stint successful powerfulness ended successful 2022.

Legislators successful the 90-member assembly voted 51-36 for Jansa connected Friday – marking a displacement for the tiny European Union state precocious tally by a wide government.

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Jansa volition request to instrumentality to parliament wrong the adjacent 15 days for different ballot to corroborate his aboriginal Cabinet.

His assignment concludes a post-election stalemate aft the ballot 2 months agone ended successful a necktie erstwhile erstwhile wide Prime Minister Robert Golob’s Freedom Movement was incapable to make a parliamentary bulk by lone securing a bladed margin.

On Thursday, Jansa and his populist Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) signed a conjugation statement with respective centre-right groups to signifier a caller government, which present holds 43 seats successful the assembly.

It volition beryllium the 4th clip 67-year-old Jansa has been successful office.

He was the country’s person from 2004 to 2008, 2012 to 2013 and 2020 to 2022.

In the March 22 elections, the SDS came 2nd with 28 seats, down Golob’s Freedom Movement, which secured 29 seats.

Former Prime Minister of Slovenia Robert Golob during the NATO acme connected June 25, 2025 [Pierre Crom/Getty Images]

The caller conjugation authorities is made up of the SDS, New Slovenia, Democrats, the Slovenian People’s Party and Focus. It besides secured further backing from the right-wing Resnica party, which volition not formally articulation the government.

In a code laying retired the government’s aboriginal goals, Jansa listed the economy, the combat against corruption and reddish tape, and decentralisation.

He besides promised to little taxes for the affluent and enactment backstage acquisition and healthcare.

Earlier this month, Jansa told reporters that the conjugation would guarantee a “cheaper authorities but with amended quality”.

Jansa is an admirer of US President Donald Trump and was besides a adjacent state of Hungary’s erstwhile populist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who was defeated successful a landslide predetermination past month.

The erstwhile PM is simply a protagonist of Israel and was a staunch professional of the Golob government’s determination to recognise a Palestinian authorities successful 2024.

During his past word successful office, Jansa faced accusations of clamping down connected antiauthoritarian institutions and property freedoms, starring to protests past and scrutiny from the European Union.