Slovenia’s Jansa Set for Potential Defeat in Nail-Biter Vote
- Premier running neck-and-neck with Golob’s party, polls show
- New government hinges on post-election coalition forming talks
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Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa is running neck-and-neck in opinion polls before Sunday’s elections with an opposition party that has vowed to oust him from power and reverse policies they say undermine democracy and the rule of law.
Jansa, a close ally of European Union rebel Viktor Orban and pro-Russian Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, is in a too-close-to-call race against the upstart Freedom Movement led by Robert Golob, the former head of state-owned energy utility Gen-I.