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2°CelsiusSlovenia at its greenestWe were all absorbed by the duel of apocalyptic newsworthiness between Macron and the extreme right. Yet, this spring brought us a resounding election victory of a green party in the small ex-Yugoslav country of Slovenia. Robert Golob and his Freedom Party founded earlier this year defeated the populist politician, prime minister Janez Jansa. Golob’s environmentalist centre-left party won about a third of the votes in the parliamentary elections, with Jansa’s Slovenian Democratic party (SDS) taking less than a quarter, a much wider margin that all opinion polls had predicted.Slovenian electorate avoided the “H...
2022-05-0420 min