Opinion by Jason Rezaian: The biggest win for liberal democracy this week wasn’t France’s election
In a surprising turn of events, three-term Prime Minister Janez Jansa, leader of the right-wing populist Slovenian Democratic Party , lost to the environmentally-focused Freedom Movement party, which campaigned on moving to green energy, rule of law and an open society.
The report says Jansa’s government “sidelined the parliament and exerted considerable political and financial pressure on civil society organizations, public media services, the judiciary, and the European Public Prosecutor’s Office.” It added: “Janša’s combative political style serves in part to distract citizens from suspected graft within SDS circles, but it also betrays an illiberal intolerance of any and all criticism.
It’s very common for Slovenes to speak several languages in addition to their native one, including Italian, English, German and Serbo-Croatian. Many of the older generations speak Russian as well, though Yugoslavia was not part of the Soviet Union. I know some of this because of my own experience with the country. My maternal grandmother’s family immigrated from Slovenia to the United States in 1910, but they — and subsequently, my mom and I — have maintained close ties with friends and relatives there. I have been traveling to Slovenia regularly for a quarter-century.
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