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Slovenia. Domani elezioni. Il partito pro-Orban favorito.

Giuseppe Sandro Mela.

2018-06-02.

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Domani tre giugno si terranno le elezioni politiche in Slovenia. 90 i seggi parlamentari in palio.

Il meccanismo della legge elettorale è alquanto complesso, ma ben spiegato nella pagina de la Commissione elettorale nazionale.

«Per le elezioni dei deputati dell’Assemblea nazionale si formano otto circoscrizioni elettorali. Ogni circoscrizione è divisa in 11 distretti. In ogni circoscrizione sono eletti 11 deputati. La legge ha stabilito il principio che in ogni distretto elettorale si vota per un candidato. Nelle aree in cui vivono le comunità nazionali italiana e ungherese vengono formate circoscrizioni speciali.

Ai sensi della Legge sulle elezioni dell’Assemblea nazionale si applica una soglia di sbarramento al 4 %, che nel processo di assegnazione dei seggi è accertata dalla Commissione elettorale nazionale. Tra le liste che hanno raggiunto la soglia, i mandati sono distribuiti su due livelli:

– nella circoscrizione elettorale: i mandati parlamentari sono distribuiti sulla base del cosiddetto quoziente Droop;

– a livello statale: i mandati parlamentari sono distribuiti sulla base del cosiddetto metodo D’Hondt;

Dato che la Costituzione garantisce agli elettori una determinata influenza sulla ripartizione dei mandati ai candidati, questo avviene in parte grazie al fatto che dalla lista dei candidati (a seconda del mandato ricevuto) vengono eletti quei candidati che hanno ricevuto il numero più alto di voti, considerando il numero totale dei voti nei distretti elettorali in cui hanno partecipato. Gli elettori possono scegliere solo quel candidato dalla lista che compare nel loro distretto elettorale.»

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Nota.

Il Quoziente Droop è la parte intera di {1 + [(totale dei voti) /( 1 + totale dei seggi)]}.

Il Metodo d’Hondt prevede che si divida il totale dei voti di ogni lista per 1, 2, 3, 4, 5… fino al numero di seggi da assegnare nel collegio, e che si assegnino i seggi disponibili in base ai risultati in ordine decrescente,

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Il partito SDS, Slovenska demokratska stranka, è al momento proiettato al 26.1%, con un margine di 14.6 punto percentuali sopra il partito socialdemocratico SD. In questa condizione, il metodo del quoziente dovrebbe avvantaggiare l’SDS come numero di deputati ottenuti.

L’SMC, The Modern Centre Party, è il partito politico guidato dal primo ministro Miro Cerar.

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«The Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovene: Slovenska demokratska stranka, SDS) is liberal-conservative political party in Slovenia. In 2003, it changed its name from the Social Democratic Party of Slovenia (Socialdemokratska stranka Slovenije). Led by Janez Janša, the SDS is a member of the European People’s Party (EPP), Centrist Democrat International and International Democrat Union. ….

On 20 March 2013, the second Janša cabinet was replaced as the government of Slovenia by the cabinet of Alenka Bratušek, a four-party centre-left coalition led by the current leader of Positive Slovenia, Alenka Bratušek.

In the 2014 European Parliament election, the SDS came in first place nationally, obtaining 24.78% of the vote, which returned three MEP seats out of eight allocated for Slovenia.

The party received 20.69% of the vote in the Slovenian parliamentary election on 13 July 2014, and won 21 seats in parliament. The party remained in opposition, this time to the cabinet of Miro Cerar.

During the Slovenian parliamentary election, 2018 the Party would run on a anti immigration platform ….

The Slovenian Democratic Party has around 27,000 members, which is the largest party membership in Slovenia. The party is subdivided into several organizations that cover specific segments; one of them is the Slovenian Democratic Youth (Slovene: Slovenska demokratska mladina, acronym SDM), the youth section of the party, currently led by Andrej Čuš.

Influential members and officials of the party include Matjaž Šinkovec who was co-founder of the Slovenian Social Democratic Union, Milan Zver, current vice president of the party and European MP, former chairman of the Slovenian National Assembly France Cukjati, and former ministers Dragutin Mate, Iztok Jarc, and member of European Parliament Romana Jordan Cizelj. Among the deceased members, the most prominent were Jože Pučnik, Rudi Šeligo and Katja Boh.

The Party is also affiliated with the major liberal-conservative think tank in Slovenia, the Jože Pučnik Institute. It is also close to the civic platform Rally for the Republic (Zbor za republiko).

The Party is Close to Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Fidesz party» [Fonte]

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«Secondo gli ultimi sondaggi, il favorito dovrebbe essere il partito conservatore di opposizione, lo Slovenska demokratska stranka (Sds, il Partito democratico sloveno), guidato dall’ex primo ministro Janez Janša. La sua campagna elettorale è stata incentrata sulla questione migratoria, arrivando a proporre l’adesione della Slovenia al Gruppo di Visegrad.» [TG24]

Dovrebbe essere inutile ricordare l’importanza di questo voto, sia per la Slovenia sia per la composizione del Consiglio Europeo. Una vittoria dell’SDS ingrosserebbe le fila dei paesi scettici su questa eurodirigenza, assertori dell’immigrazione sotto condizione che sia legale, ed aderenti ai valori delle comuni radici europee sostenuti dai paesi del Visegrad. L’asse Juncker, Tusk, Merkel slitterebbe verso la minoranza.


EU Observer. 2018-06-02. Slovenia election could bring Orban ally to power

Janez Jansa, an ally of Hungary’s Viktor Orban, is leading the race to become Slovenia’s next prime minister, polling 25 percent support ahead of Sunday’s general elections. The Centrist List of Marjan Sarec is second on 16 percent support and the Social Democrats, whose leader is open to form a government with Sarec, at 14 percent. Janez Jansa was forced to resign as PM in 2013 over a corruption scandal.

Euronews. 2018-06-02. Slovenia’s election and Orban’s populist influence

What’s happening?

Slovenia is holding parliamentary elections on Sunday, June 3. They were officially sparked by the resignation of Prime Minister Miro Cerar in March but a vote was due to take place this year regardless.

Cerar, leader of the centre-left Party of Modern Centre, stepped down amid frustration at alleged obstructions to the government’s work.

His resignation came just hours after the supreme court scrapped the result of a referendum approving a €1 billion railway project.

He was also under pressure from trade unions and coalition partners after strikes in the country demanding higher wages.

Who are the key parties?

Party of Modern Centre (SMC): Formed in June 2014, it carried Cerar to power less than six weeks later in Slovenia’s last parliamentary poll with a 34.4% vote share.

Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia (DeSUS): The centrist movement was in coalition with SMC after securing a 10.2% share of the vote four years ago, its best result since being formed in 1991.

Social Democrats (SD): The centre-left party, which emerged from the Communist Party of Slovenia, was a junior partner in the last coalition government.

Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS): The right-wing movement, led by former prime minister Janez Jansa, is predicted to win Sunday’s election.

Others: There are eco-socialists The Left; the conservative New Slovenia movement; and List of Marjan Šarec, the populist party of a former comedian who topped opinion polls as recently as last December.

What are the issues?

Welfare, healthcare and levels of salaries are all issues in the run-up to the election, according to Danica Fink-Hafner, an expert on Slovenian politics from the University of Ljubljana.

While Slovenia’s economy is forecast to grow by a healthy 5.1% this year, boosted by exports and investments, waiting lists for medical examinations and operations are long and the system is short of money and staff, reports Reuters.

Recently the last three consultants quit Slovenia’s only child surgical cardiology department, saying a lack of doctors meant they could no longer work there.

The hospital management is now hoping to keep services going using visiting doctors from Croatia and the Czech Republic.

What about immigration?

A hike in the number of people trying to cross into Slovenia has pushed migration up the electoral agenda.

Police dealt with 1,226 illegal border crossings in the first four months of 2018, compared with 322 over the same period last year.

The country was also hit during Europe’s migrant crisis, especially after Hungary erected a fence on its border with Croatia in October 2015.

Slovenia saw asylum applications leap from 275 in 2015 to 1,310 a year later as migrant flows were directed elsewhere.

Nevertheless Slovenia’s immigrant community — including those from elsewhere in the EU — numbered 245,369 last year in a country with a population of 2.1 million people.

The populist SDS, which top latest opinion polls, have vowed to secure the border against illegal migration and bun the burka and niqab in public.

Why is the election important for the rest of Europe?

If Jansa’s SDS do triumph it could provide further evidence of the swing to populism in some parts of Europe, which has seen anti-establishment parties win sweeping gains in Hungary and Italy in recent months.

And it might not be an accident: Europe’s leading populist, Hungary’s Viktor Orban, has been in Slovenia speaking at a SDS rally during campaigning.

“The biggest issue I would say is the support of populism from Hungary into Slovenia,” Fink-Hafner told Euronews

“Jansa’s also took over his [Orban’s] discourse about the need to cut finance for NGOs, in particular those who are left-orientated and multicultural and those who criticise the right-wing immigration policy.

“I think homegrown populism really grew on the basis of the mismanagement of the economic crisis, so this was really a criticism of the old elite.

“So people turned to parties built on this sentiment, anti-elitism and talking about the fears of people.

“The link between Jansa and Orban though is new and people don’t like it and there is a whole movement against it.”

What is the likely outcome?

Slovenia’s political landscape is so fragmented that it is very difficult to predict who will make up the next coalition.

Even if SDS wins the election, other parties’ expressed unwillingness to work with it may mean it cannot form a government.

“I expect very long coalition talks. We will certainly not have a new government before September,” Tanja Staric, a political analyst at national broadcaster Radio Slovenia, told Reuters.