The newly founded freedom movement (Gibanje Svoboda) won a landslide victory in the Slovenian parliamentary elections. At least that’s what a post-election survey published by the RTV Slovenija TV channel the evening following the end of the election shows. According to this, the movement of ex-top manager Robert Golob reached almost 36 percent of the votes.
According to the survey, Prime Minister Janez Jansa’s populist Democratic Party (SDS) came in second with less than 23 percent. If the post-election poll is confirmed by the count, Jansa would have missed his goal of a fourth term.
Four years ago, his SDS had clearly become the strongest force, but was initially kept out of power by a left-liberal coalition. He only made a comeback in early 2020. Since then he had polarized the media and the judiciary, which is why his opponents stylized and mobilized the election as the fateful decision for Slovenian democracy. In fact, voter turnout was significantly higher this year than in 2018.
