equinox_code wrote:It’s a nice idea- everyone having a say- but it’s utterly corrupted by dodgy information flows
incredibly worse e.g. living in somewhere like Russia
Brooks wrote:This would seem to be it. It's not even anything as bluntly 'addressable' as 'show people the facts and they'll thing!!!", it's in environmental the richest sense. If you've breathed shit your entire span, you will not know it is shit.equinox_code wrote:It’s a nice idea- everyone having a say- but it’s utterly corrupted by dodgy information flows
Kow wrote:And what if the result is that more people vote for policies that are economy over wellbeing? Do you put your hands up and say fair enough?
Kow wrote:Who's going to teach the parents that they should do it?
Slovenia's populist Prime Minister Janez Jansa looked set to lose a national election on Sunday as the environmentalist Freedom Movement party won more votes than his SDS party, according to an exit poll.
The election had been expected to be tight but the exit poll by the Mediana Institute showed the Freedom Movement leading with 35.8% of the vote, far more than expected, while the SDS had secured 22.5% of the vote.
That would give the Freedom Movement, which campaigned on the transition to green energy, an open society and the rule of law, 42 seats in the 88-seat parliament and the SDS 26 seats.
Opposition parties say he is undermining democracy. Many Slovenians agree, staging two years of almost weekly protests. Those addressed issues ranging from his government’s restriction of funds to public media critical of his policies to giving police too much power, making sweeping changes to state institution, and corruption -- issues that his ally, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, is also accused of.
Like Orban, Jansa has courted euroskeptic leaders. He met France’s Le Pen when he chaired the EU’s rotating presidency last year and agreed with her that national constitutions supersede EU treaties, echoing other governments that have clashed with the bloc’s rule-of-law standards.
Slovenians “long for freedom, democracy, culture, and independent media that would promote kind and respectful discourse,” Golob said in a pre-election debate this week. He denounced what he called “a police state, dictatorship, teargas and water cannons” under Jansa.
“No thank you, that is what the people are saying to this government,” he said.
Exit polls in Slovenia’s parliamentary election on Sunday suggested an opposition liberal party won by a landslide, dealing a major defeat to populist Prime Minister Janez Jansa, who was accused to pushing the small European Union country to the right while in office.
If confirmed in an official tally, the result means that the Freedom Movement, a newcomer in the election, stands likely to form the next government in a coalition with smaller center-left groups.
It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!