Slovene President Consults on Early Election After Premier Quits
- Pahor will consults parties and then set the election date
- Delay of sale of biggest lender NLB is becoming campaign issue
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Slovenia’s president began consultations with political parties over bringing forward summer parliamentary elections after Prime Minister Miro Cerar resigned last week.
Borut Pahor is asking the euro-area country’s political leaders in two days of talks if they want to bring forward the ballot, originally scheduled for June, by a month or propose a replacement for Cerar. The prime minister’s resignation, made formally Tuesday in a speech to parliament, followed nationwide strikes by public sector employees and a court’s annulment of a referendum that had paved the way for his government’s biggest investment project. Cerar will remain in a caretaker role until a new government is formed.