In the Nova24TV studio on Monday 1 June, we spoke with Janez Janša, President of the Slovenian Democratic Party, who was elected Prime Minister for the fourth time on 22 May.
We are publishing a conversation from a television show in which the host Boris Tomasich spoke with Janez Janša for the first time after being elected Prime Minister.
BORIS TOMAŠIČ: On Thursday evening you submitted a list of candidates for ministers. How do you assess this list? Of course, it is about negotiations with coalition partners. How is it that among them there are no exposed experienced names who remained in the parliamentary group?
JANEZ JANŠA: As far as the list itself is concerned, this is the best one possible in a situation where many things have to be taken into account. If you read the coalition agreement carefully, it is extensive. Not by the number of words, but by the steps that need to be taken to implement it. This will be possible only if we share a little bit of the work. I imagine this government as a systematic, persistent and, if you will, tedious institution that implements the program from point to point. It's only four years; some will be this week, next week, next month, in three years ... This means that at least part of this political struggle, which will always be taken over by the team in the parliament. That's how we organize ourselves. You know the opposition, you see what they do. Any thing that the government presents as part of the formal coalition agreement, it's in a key vote with a few countries and there will be a vote.
And to defend it, so that people don't have a one-sided image of...
From your perspective, that's crucial, but from ours, it's a vote.
There's been a lot of public dissatisfaction with the ministerial team on the part of one of the partners, the SLS.
If there was a key to one ministerial seat per MP, we would have to have 43 ministries; 28 of them would have SDS, which would still be more ministries than, for example, in the time of the Executive Council. If we look at the balance of power between the three parties of the coalition; SLS, NSi and Fokus are one parliamentary group. This is a trio that coordinates with each other, and then we coordinate with the others as a coalition. Over two levels of coordination, therefore. The SDS has 65% of the quota according to the ratio, and as you can see from the composition of the ministries, it has sacrificed a large part of this quota. The candidate who is the representative of Focus was in our expert council for this area, she was the state secretary in our previous government. It was not a matter of who was in which party, but we found the best possible candidates within the staff of the coalition, but there were also some good candidates who made up the coalition.
I'll take advantage of it. there were some complaints. robert golob somehow can't accept that he didn't negotiate successfully, so he's appearing in some videos and criticizing everything you do. one of the harshest criticisms was, why a janeshev lawyer in the government, because it's a kind of nepotism.
And he's not just my lawyer, he's the lawyer of many, because he's on the market, and I hired him because I've had 190 lawsuits filed against me in the last 40 years, one of these and one of those, so this has nothing to do with it, nor does it have anything to do with us winning the Trent case and ending this saga, because we've talked to him about this before, so all of this talk is pure nonsense, and he's been nominated for this position because he's operatively capable, he's been in this department from the bottom up, and we need experienced people.
Four years of a very left government - the most left-wing in history - are behind us, it was full of broken promises.
First of all very empty shells. The state of public finances is not rosy, with the fact that taxes were raised. If they were raised to make things right, they would understand this. We have a budget deficit, increased taxes and also the threats of those who want money from taxpayers in the future as well. While the situation in the economy is not rosy. We need to ask where all this has gone. This is our key concern. Then there is a loose bureaucracy. Unfortunately, these are not the latest figures, but in the last mandate we lost a thousand jobs in the economy; unemployment did not increase, because the government hired a lot of people in the public sector.
We're seeing the indefinite hiring of people who have been hired by the current government on trust, even a minister just before the end of her term has a new job.
It's hard to say flat-out because there are different cases. When the Golobov government took office, all those employees who were employed during our previous government were bullied. Everywhere. Many of them couldn't bear it and went on their own, others were fired or transferred. We're not going to work in the same way, maybe they hired someone capable at this time. But su…
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