Chief of Police Senad Jušić resigned earlier today. And while interior minister Boštjan Poklukar denied it, the move was clearly designed to help save his ass in the upcoming no-confidence vote.

SD came out swinging on Monday, saying that Jušić has to go, pronto, and only after that will they consider supporting Poklukar (or not). Not to be outdone in this powerplay, Levica followed suit yesterday, saying pretty much the same thing. While Poklukar can survive both parties’ abstentions, their votes for no confidence would seal his fate.
A no-confidence vote (formally billed an interpellation) against a minister is a tall order. The opposition has to come up with absolute majority in the parliament (46 votes) in order to cashier them from office.
Sitting by the river waiting for bodies to float by
Under normal circumstances, chances of success are minimal. Unless we’re in minority government territory, the opposition cannot count on mustering a majority. Which is why these things are usually designed as a bit of a political theatre. A chance to be on the telly and generate a couple of TikTok vids, to be disseminated among the faithful. This time around, however, circumstances are not normal.
The main beef here is between SD and GS. The former is convinced the latter sucker-punched it over Litijska Affair. Which, to be honest, is not an entirely unreasonable line of thinking. And now the bigger of the two junior coalition partners is in for a bit of a payback.
If you sit by a river long enough, say for a year, (political) bodies of your enemies will start floating by.
Too little, too late
Parallel to this is a bit of an policy-cum-ideological turf war between SD and Levica. It is no exaggeration to say that the junior-most of the Golob coalition have used their time in government well. Sure, not everyone agrees with their policies and agenda, but their core electorate surely does.
And with SD being as bereft of ideas as they are, Levica have not only taken over the mantle of the leading left-wing party, they wear it well. What they cannot afford, however, is to be outflanked by SD at whatever the outrage of the day is. And there is no lack of outrages when it comes to interior minister Poklukar. The fact that the main copper was appointed under sus conditions that he was never able to shake off is only one of them.
However, with Jušič gone, it surely comes a surprise to a grand total of zero people that SD and Levica now say that it is all too little, too late. They smell blood in the water and will not stop just because they got what they wanted yesterday. They want what they want today.
Which increasingly appears to be the head of interior minister Poklukar.
And since they’re not yet willing to openly vote against him, thus break the coalition agreement and risk the Apex Aviary pull the plug on the whole thing, there is now mounting pressure for Poklular to tender his resignation before the start of parliamentary business next week.
Poklukar possibly dead man walking
This would save the government hours of opposition-fed grief and make sure the Golob coalition lives to see another day. And seeing how all coalition partners still have more to gain from working together than attacking each other (though that ratio is beginning to shift), odds are that protecting private Poklukar will turn out to be a non-starter.
So it seems entirely reasonable to think the interior minister is already a political dead man walking.