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Slovenia's opposition wins elections | World News | Deutsche Welle | 22.09.2008
Slovenia's opposition Social Democrats (SD) have defeated the centre-right Democratic Party of Prime Minister Janez Jansa in Sunday's parliamentary election. Preliminary official results show the Social Democrats led by Borut Pahor are likely to win 29 seats in Slovenia's 90-seat parliament. The Election Commission said the ruling centre-right SDS party won 28 seats. Political observers say the Social Democrats are likely to form a coalition government with two other left-leaning parties.


*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Mon Sep 22nd, 2008 at 02:33:18 AM EST
BBC article, images with captions:


Mr Pahor is a former young communist and one-time male model


Mr Jansa is hoping to gain a new four-year mandate

Heh LOL. Janša is a former young communist, too. Pahor may have been a male model at some time, but he has a university degree and was involved in politics early on -- in the same rainbow press style, BBC could have mentioned Janša's affairs.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Mon Sep 22nd, 2008 at 02:49:03 AM EST
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From the Austrian public television:

oe1.ORF.at / Machtwechsel zugunsten der Sozialdemokraten oe1.ORF.at /Change of power in favor of the Social Democrats
"Die Sozialdemokraten zählen zu der sogenannten Reformlinken in Europa; ihre wichtigsten Anführer waren Tony Blair und Gerhard Schröder. Die traditionelle Linke sieht ihre Hauptmission darin, das gerecht zu verteilen, was Erwirtschaftet wurde. Die reformierte Linke sieht aber auch darin ihre Verpflichtung, die Bedingungen dafür zu schaffen, dass wir mehr Erwirtschaften, um das auch verteilen zu können.""The [Slowenian] Social Democrats belong to the so-called Reform Left in Europe; its main leaders were Tony Blair and Gerhard Schröder. The traditional Left sees its main mission in the fair distribution of what was produced. The Reformed Left sees its duty also in creating the conditions to produce more, in order to be able to distribute more."

Gah... another Central European Centre-Leftist who still sees Bliar (and Schröder) as role model. Then again, in the campaign, he pushed for more redistribution, Third Wayism more transpired in a commitment to continue with a slow-paced privatisation of state companies.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Mon Sep 22nd, 2008 at 04:42:49 AM EST
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