Slovenia centrists win national election, defeating right-wing populist incumbent

[Norbert]

Slovenia's opposition Freedom Movement party won the largest share of the vote in Sunday's election, beating right-wing populist Prime Minister Janez Jansa's Slovenian Democratic Party by about 10 percentage points and making Freedom Movement leader Robert Golob the likely next prime minister.

Jansa is an effusive admirer of former U.S. President Donald Trump and a key ally of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Slovenia's election was "a noteworthy test for the appeal of right-wing populism" in Europe, The New York Times reports, and Jansa's evident defeat, along with Marine Le Pen's loss in France on Sunday, was a "significant setback" for "Europe's once surging movement of nationalist populists."...

So the hard right in Europe didn't have the best of weekends. Jansa even supported Ukraine over Putin and Russia but being an admirer of the orange shitgibbon apparently did him no favors.

https://news.yahoo.com/slovenia-centrists-win-national-election-045244139.html

[speak easy]

1. 'Slovenian premier endorses Trump's reelection'

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/slovenian-premier-supports-trumps-reelection-joins-73784074

[thomski64]

2. Right wing populist

By any other name FASCIST, just like
in this country. Let's call things what
they are

[Raster]

4. It is amazing just how many news people or news organization will do everything they can...

...to avoid saying "fascist" or "fascism." It's the other "F" word.

[gab13by13]

5. The Freedom movement that won, doesn't sound centrist to me,

it sounds leftist.

[nycbos]

6. According to Wikipedia...

... it's a center-left liberal party that cares about the environment. From the context of the article I am guessing they won by putting together a big tent pro-democracy coalition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Movement_(Slovenia)

[gab13by13]

7. I'm just saying, it's good to know

that an environmentalist party is considered centrist.

[rpannier]

9. Older Brother lives in Prague

He says it's more left than center and its coalition is quite left

[nycbos]

10. I'll take your brother's word for it.

I was just taking an educated guess.

[2naSalit]

8. +1

Welcome to DU!

[ms liberty]

3. K&R. This is good. n/t