Slovenian Prime Minister's Coalition Loses Left Support in Parliament

The government has deviated from the agreement it had with us, so we no longer consider the agreement for our co-operation with the government binding. From now on we will be in real war”, Left Party Chairman Luka Messec said in front of journalists.

His party has 9 deputies in parliament and since the establishment of the left-liberal government of Marjan Sharec last year supported social government-oriented programmes through a separate agreement, though there were no representatives in the government.

One of the obstacles to their co-operation was the issue of eliminating additional health insurance as soon as possible, but the government has proposed removing it since next year.

Regarding the draft for the full removal of additional security submitted by the left, the government today submitted changes to block it from being put to the polls, while announcing its solution to replace supplementary health insurance with a flat “” almost the same amount.

Mesec disagrees with the decision, and his party had announced earlier that it would not vote on the state budget this month, which could theoretically lead to a crisis of the government coalition, which even constitute five parties.