Slovenia`s 14th government was formed following the resignation of Prime Minister Marjan Earec of the 13th government in January 2020. Janez Jana of the Slovenian Democratic Party has formed a coalition with the Modern Centre Party, New Slovenia and the Slovenian Pensioners` Democratic Party. The government was confirmed on March 13, 2020, amid the coronavirus outbreak. „The government is a minority government. If we want to do something, we have to make arrangements, that`s the reality of democracy,“ Sarec told Radio Slovenia. STA, March 3, 2020 – Democratic Leader Janez Jana addressed the National Assembly ahead of the vote to appoint him Prime Minister-designate and stressed that the four parties entering a new coalition would focus on what brought them together. He said he would seek consensus as he tackled the challenges, adding that the opposition was also invited to cooperate. The cooperation agreement was signed with the opposition Slovenian Nationalist Party, which holds three seats and has supported the government in most parliamentary decisions in recent months. In late January, Slovenian Prime Minister Marjan Earec resigned and called for new elections in the EU member state after his minority government failed to pass major bills in parliament. After bitter coalition negotiations, the leader of the right-wing opposition, Janez Jana, managed to find a new majority of defectors from the previous coalition. Under the agreement, the left will work this year to prepare the 2020 and 2021 budgets, which are expected to be approved by Parliament by the end of 2019. On 25 February 2020, President Pahor ended the second round of consultations with political parties. The parties that form the new government confirmed the coalition agreement signed on the same day.
[2] [3] Coalition partners agreed on the need for fundamental structural reforms, but at the same time had to admit that this would be difficult to do under a minority government. The left-wing Levica party supported the coalition and managed to impose part of its own agenda, while preventing the implementation of much of the commitments set out in the coalition agreement. After Levica withdrew his informal support for the `arec-led government in November 2019, it became virtually impossible to pass bills in Parliament. In particular, the government has maintained Slovenia`s economic recovery, with record budgets planned for 2020 and 2021. The agreement was signed just before the left`s support in Parliament to validate its 2019 budget on Wednesday.