Joanna Bryson, blathering

RE: https://mastodon.uno/@elCelio/116274703465014804

This did not age well.

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Show threadJoanna Bryson, blathering11h ago
@elCelio https://www.dw.com/en/slovenia-election-sees-ruling-party-tied-with-opposition/a-76473130
Slovenia election sees ruling party tied with opposition

Prime Minister Robert Golob's governing liberal Freedom Movement of Slovenia was almost perfectly tied with Janez Jansa and his right-wing SDS party, with 99% of votes counted.

Deutsche Welle
Show threadpettter10h ago
@j2bryson ....didn't it? What?
Show threadpettter10h ago
@j2bryson Preliminary counts seem to be very close to the final results?
Show threadel Celio 🇪🇺 🇺🇦10h ago

@pettter @j2bryson

I divide parties as pro-EU or pro-russia because I am interested in foreign policy trends in EU member countries

Of course national governments are formed around party coalitions on the left-right spectrum (which is mainly determined by internal policy)

You can see here how I wrote that the formation of a stable government will be difficult:
https://mastodon.uno/@elCelio/116274777933497630

Anyhow, whatever the government, the election shows how Slovenia will continue to support the EU and Ukraine

Show threadpettter10h ago
@elCelio Why do you put Levica down as 'pro-Russia'? I can't find anything about them holding such positions, but I don't speak Slovenian. @j2bryson
Show threadel Celio 🇪🇺 🇺🇦9h ago

@pettter @j2bryson

because they support ending military aid to Ukraine.
but since they are in a coalition with the Freedom Movement they can't block it.

https://radiocapodistria.rtvslo.si/articolo/slovenia/respinta-la-proposta-di-demilitarizzazione/756637

Respinta la proposta di demilitarizzazione

Kordiš ha inoltre denunciato la doppiezza della politica slovena, che invoca la pace, ma non ha ancora messo calendarizzato alcuna seduta parlamentare per dibattere la sua proposta di un referendum consultivo sulle spese militari.

RTV Slovenija
Show threadpettter9h ago
@elCelio To be clear, Miha Kordiš, who is the person behind the proposal, is no longer a member or a candidate for Levica, and was not at the time of that article. Was he a member when he submitted it? @j2bryson
Show threadel Celio 🇪🇺 🇺🇦3h ago

@pettter @j2bryson

yes you are right. this is after he was expelled. it was an attempt to create a crisis in the coalition supporting the government, because Levica didn't support military aid to Ukraine but the government did.

For example (this in Slovenian, I had to use automatic translation):
https://www.rtvslo.si/slovenija/poslanska-skupina-levice-pozvala-vlado-naj-ustavi-vojasko-pomoc-ukrajini/723075

Poslanska skupina Levice pozvala vlado, naj ustavi vojaško pomoč Ukrajini

Poslanska skupina stranke Levica je vlado, katere članica je, pozvala, naj zaradi nevarnega stopnjevanja vojne ustavi vse oblike bojne vojaške pomoči Ukrajini in se zavzame za prepoved rabe jedrskega orožja pri reševanju konflikta.

RTV Slovenija
Show threadJoanna Bryson, blathering6h ago
@elCelio @pettter sorry both — I’m bad with names and saw DW panicking about the “farr right” party and assumed the final 30% of the vote had all been on the right somehow — there’s often systemic differences in who gets counted earlier or later eg municipality size.
Show threadel Celio 🇪🇺 🇺🇦4h ago

@j2bryson @pettter

the main problem of the far right populist party is that they got above the threshold: as a consequence neither the right-wing coalition nor the left-wing coalition has a majority in parliament...