Well, fuck me sideways and call me Sally. For a bunch of right wing culture war issues meant to prop up the legislative referendum on parliamentary inquiry, Sunday sure was a barn-burner. As you probably know by now the YES camp won the vote on disenfranchising third-country nationals on local level, and the one on tying welfare benefits to public work.
Crucially, however, the NO camp won the all-important vote on removing safeguards of a parliamentary inquiry and abolition of RTV SLO fee. The margins of victory are thin as fuck, but they do exist. And the resulting panic in the right wing coalition of Janez Janša suggests that his government is much shakier than he would like you to believe. Today’s shakeups and resignations in the parliament support that notion.
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