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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSlovenia centrists win national election, defeating right-wing populist incumbent
Slovenia's opposition Freedom Movement party won the largest share of the vote in Sunday's election, beating right-wing populist Prime Minister Janez Jansa's Slovenian Democratic Party by about 10 percentage points and making Freedom Movement leader Robert Golob the likely next prime minister.
Jansa is an effusive admirer of former U.S. President Donald Trump and a key ally of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Slovenia's election was "a noteworthy test for the appeal of right-wing populism" in Europe, The New York Times reports, and Jansa's evident defeat, along with Marine Le Pen's loss in France on Sunday, was a "significant setback" for "Europe's once surging movement of nationalist populists."...
So the hard right in Europe didn't have the best of weekends. Jansa even supported Ukraine over Putin and Russia but being an admirer of the orange shitgibbon apparently did him no favors.
https://news.yahoo.com/slovenia-centrists-win-national-election-045244139.html
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Slovenia centrists win national election, defeating right-wing populist incumbent (Original Post)
Norbert
Apr 2022
OP
speak easy
(9,291 posts)1. 'Slovenian premier endorses Trump's reelection'
thomski64
(455 posts)2. Right wing populist
By any other name FASCIST, just like
in this country. Let's call things what
they are
Raster
(20,998 posts)4. It is amazing just how many news people or news organization will do everything they can...
...to avoid saying "fascist" or "fascism." It's the other "F" word.
gab13by13
(21,379 posts)5. The Freedom movement that won, doesn't sound centrist to me,
it sounds leftist.
nycbos
(6,035 posts)6. According to Wikipedia...
... it's a center-left liberal party that cares about the environment. From the context of the article I am guessing they won by putting together a big tent pro-democracy coalition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Movement_(Slovenia)
gab13by13
(21,379 posts)7. I'm just saying, it's good to know
that an environmentalist party is considered centrist.
rpannier
(24,333 posts)9. Older Brother lives in Prague
He says it's more left than center and its coalition is quite left
nycbos
(6,035 posts)10. I'll take your brother's word for it.
I was just taking an educated guess.
Welcome to DU!
ms liberty
(8,591 posts)3. K&R. This is good. n/t