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Janša Disputes Results While Golob Coos Partners

It has been a week since the Slovenian election and Janez Janša keeps re-litigating the result. Apparently he skipped school when they were learning how nobody likes a sore loser. Or, he may be in more shit with rank and file than he lets on. Which is why he keeps kicking this particularly deceased horse.

President Pirc Musar met with PM Golob do discuss election results. She also met with Janez Janša, Jernej Vrtovec, Anže Logar and leaders of every other party elected to the new parliament. — *President Pirs Musar informally meeting Robert Golob to discuss election result (source)*

On the other hand, Robert Golob and Nataša Pirc Musar are calling meetings. Right now, these are purely about taking the temperature. But in this brave new world of post-rational politics vibing is super important, apparently. So there are already attempts at making people comfortable around one another.

Robert Golob Wins Second Election In A Row

In the end, Robert Golob and Gibanje Svoboda eked out a narrow victory in the parliamentary election in Slovenia. But with SDS of Janez Janša tight on his ass, Muddy Hollows is in for a protracted period of coalition building that will likely (but not necessarily) the Big Bird continuing as PM, albeit with a shakier coalition.

Unofficial results of the 2026 Slovenian election show Robert Golob and his Gibanje Svoboda taking the top spot with Janez Janša and SDS close second. — *Top-line election results (source: DVK)*

Assuming, of course, that the new parliament gets constituted at all. Namely the moment he lost the lead, Janez Janša started claiming voting and counting irregulairites. Which means that the next few weeks will be fucking intense.

Slovenian Election: One Battle After Another

Slowly at first and then all at once. Parliamentary election in Muddy Hollows is less than 72 hours away and the shit-show went from zero to 11, inside a New York minute. For all the polls and TV debates, it now open warfare and a general melee.

Election time. A composite image of Europe Elects opinion poll results and a photo from tonight's debate on RTVSLO, before Sunday's election in Slovenia. — *Debate on RTVSLO this evening, combined with the latest post by Europe Elects (source, source)*

The last six to twelve months have provided us with plenty of rendering of garments, strategizing and positioning to maintain status quo. SDS was in the lead, GS second, then nothing for a very long time, and then everyone else. But the moment ball started rolling, it was all just, well, one battle after another.

The Mossad/Not Mossad Threat Model Of Slovenian Election Interference

About that post on public opinion polls pengovsky was promising? Yeah, it’s going to have to wait, because Muddy Hollows entered Mossad/Not-Mossad territory this morning. And it obviously has to do with the honey-trap from the previous post.

Screenshot of Mladina story about Black Cube, a group of Mossad-adjacent spooks-for-hire. accused of election interference in this campaign cycle — *The leading story on Mladina website today (source)*

After the supposedly shocking revelation from undercover videos became public, the political right wanted nothing more but to keep talking about what was said, regardless of the context. The political left on the other side, wanted to talk about election interference, regardless of what was said. And today they got their chance.

Who Framed Dominika Švarc Pipan?

Muddy Hollows got its knickers in a twist yesterday as recordings started leaking out of people in the Big Bird’s orbit saying impolitic things about other people in his orbit. For example, Dominika Švarc Pipan offhandedly suggesting at things that could be interpreted as corrupt and/or criminal. Which is awkward, to say the least. It is also lost on precisely no-one that these things are coming out ten days before the election. It is kind of like an October surprise, only in March.

Dominika Švarc Pipan doing her Roger Rabbit bit. Vesna Vuković is probably nearby. (some AI was used) — *Dominika Švarc Pipan doing her Roger Rabbit bit (some AI was used)*

For all the brouhaha that this story is attempting to generate – and for the time being, it is mostly right-wing spin doctors who are pretend-clutching their pearls over this – it is important to see what the story is not. This is not about high-ranking government officials asking for bribes or admitting to criminal activities. It is GS-adjacent influence peddlers talking shit about their competition and brandishing their own credentials. At least for now.

Immovable KPK Meets Unstoppable Golob

It has been over two weeks since PM Robert Golob was slapped with a KPK ruling over his actions in the Bobnar Boondoggle. Pengovsky was going to write it up soonest but there were things to see and people to do. Also, adulting is hard. Be that as it may, the intervening days have shown that Apex Avian had developed some remarkable survival skills. Not really Teflon, because he is not out of the woods yet, but remarkable nevertheless.

A Who Would Win meme featuring Slovenian PM Robert Golob and KPK, the country's anti-graft commission, investigating the PM for corruption and conflict of interest. — *A meme for (of?) the ages*

The most remarkable thing about it is that Gibanje Svoboda is keeping the pace with SDS of Janez Janša. This, despite the fact that the opposition is in full offensive mode. Whisper it, but GS may even closing the gap slightly, depending on which pollster does the polling. It seems that whatever bad juju this story was going to generate, it was already priced in by Golob’s supporters. At this point they simply don’t give a flying fuck anymore. Does that remind you of anyone?

The Restaurant at the End of the (Left-Liberal) Universe

The history of every major political party in Muddy Hollows tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question ‘How can we run the government?’ the second by the question ‘Why do we run the government?’ and the third by the question ‘Where shall we have lunch‘?

Robert Golob hosted leaders of left-liberal parties at a posh restaurant in Ljubljana. Everyone came and agreed to play nice. — *PM Golob welcoming playing host at an admittedly posh restaurant (source)*

With apologies to Douglas Adams, there simply is no better way to describe today’s huddle of the six parties comprising the left-liberal half of the Slovenian political spectrum. To an untrained eye, the lunch date may have seemed like an overture to tighter political collaboration or even semi-unification. In reality, these guys went to lunch because they were hungry.