April, 2026 | SLEEPING WITH PENGOVSKY

The President Had One Job…

In a surprise address to the media on Saturday morning, President Nataša Pirc Musar announced she will not be making a PM nomination. Assessing that no candidate can secure an absolute majority in the parliament, she notified Speaker Stevanović (shudder!) that she is so done with this shit, even though she still had two more weeks to come up with a name.

President Nataša Pirc Musar standing behind a lectern last Saturday. She said she will not nominate a PM. At all. With this she may have opened herself to impeachment and is definitely guilty of political malpractice. — *President Pirc Musar announcing she will remain nominee-less (source)*

Not to put too fine a point on it, the president fucked up royally. In one fell swoop, she made a huge political error, missed an opportunity to hold parliament accountable, screwed up the messaging (again) and possibly opened herself up to an impeachment proceeding. It is, to use a technical term, a clusterfuck.

It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Janša

If your idea of Santa Claus is a bald guy with a thick Dolenjska drawl who has it in for public media and NGOs, then Christmas is about to come early in Muddy Hollows. Namely, despite claiming the opposite, Janez Janša is on the cusp or forming his fourth government.

President Pirc Musar will probably end up with Janez Janša as her second prime minister. In the picture, both are ecstatic as fuck at this prospect. — *Janez Janša and Nataša Pirc Musar, fucking extatic at the prospect of seeing one more of one another (source)*

That much is obvious after president Pirc Musar held her first official round of consultations before she appointing a PM nominee. To be fair, no-one has yet secured the 46 votes necessary in the first and second rounds of PM appointment procedure. But with Robert Golob taking a step back, the initiative is with the Glorious Leader. And he sure behaves as if he had already clinched it.

Zoran Stevanović, Ultimate Bouncer

So, yeah, this happened. By now most of you know that SDS, NSi++ and Demokrati backed Resnica boss Zoran Stevanović for Speaker of Parliament. Which is a bit like putting the bouncer in charge of the nightclub. It might look cool but you just know bad shit is waiting to happen.

Zoran Stevanović in front of the Slovenian parliament, looking more like a bouncer and less like a Speaker he was about to become. — *Zoran Stevanovič doing his best bouncer impression, a day before he got the Speaker job*

To say that Robert Golob and GS were blindsided by this is an understatement. They had it all gamed out six steps ahead and were ready for some serious 3D chess. But it all hinged on the failure of the first speakership bid. Imagine their surprise when a disgraced former cop got the nod at the first try and was driven home by his buddies from the police academy.