US EditionOpposition Party Ousts Leader
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What does Matej Tonin's resignation from the position of leader of Nova Slovenija mean? And what political consequences does this bring to the domestic political arena barely a year before the parliamentary elections? "Top notch!" is the first comment from the largest party on the right - Janša's SDS. Former NSi president Ljudmila Novak says: "I'm not surprised." Will Tonin really be succeeded by Jernej Vrtovec and who was the first to react on …
Opposition party ousts leader
The Christian democratic New Slovenia (NSi) has ousted its leader Matej Tonin in a soft coup that paves the way for the opposition party to potentially join a coalition with the right-wing Democratic Party (SDS) after the next election, something Tonin has rejected. The surprise news came after a run-of-the-mill 20 June session of the party's governing council at which Tonin proposed that NSi hold a platform congress before the end of this year,…
Last Thursday evening, Miran Videtič and I were returning from Sarajevo, accompanied by an increasingly well-known professor of the younger generation from the Ljubljana FDV. We were already on the phone with the Nova Slovenije MP Jernej Vrtovc when the author of these lines told him that Matej Tonin would resign during tomorrow's (Friday's) Hour of Truth. It was a joke, but then it really happened, but for Tonin, an MEP and president of NSi, it…
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