On Friday February 8th, 2012, the vote on the appointment of the Prime Minister's cabinet took place in the National Assembly. MPs cast their votes on the proposed cabinet as a whole, and a simple majority suffices for appointment (more)

Today, Saturday 28th January, the vote for the Prime Minister was passed in the Slovenian National Assembly. The newly-formed centre-right coalition consists of all three EPP parties: the Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS, 26), the Slovenian People's Party (SLS, 6) the New Slovenia (NSi, 4), Gregor Virant's Civic List (DGLV, 8) and the Democratic Party of Slovenian Pensioners (DeSUS, 6) and the SDS president, Mr Janez Janša, was appointed to be the Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia (more)

The Finnish journalist Magnus Berglund, the Finnish television station YLE and the former Acting Director General of the Slovenian Police, Bojan Potočnik, are obliged to withdraw controversial statements, publish the verdict and to financially compensate Janez Janša (more)

At today's election convention in Brdo in Videonagovoru it was announced that Mr. Janša and the President of the SDS received the support of numerous prominent figures, such as President Jose Manuel Barroso, Pedro Passos Coelho (Portuguese Prime Minister), Jyrki Chattiness (Prime Minister of the Republic Finland), Michael Spindelegger (Vice Chancellor of the Republic of Austria), Emil Boc (Prime Minister of Romania), and Victor Orban (the Prime Minister of Hungary) (more)

The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel has expressed support to the president of the Slovenian Democrats (SDS), Janez Jansa, in the race ahead of the 4 December general election. "I especially support Janez Jansa. I wish him success in the election campaign. Jansa took Slovenia to the eurozone and is a great European," Merkel said at a recent summit of the European People's Party (EPP), whose member is also the SDS. (more)