The first outlines of the new government are known!

On Friday, the president of the Freedom Movement (GS), Robert Golob, presented the names of the candidates for ministers.

His government will have three vice presidents. In addition to the presidents of SD and Levica, who will be part of the government, Tanja Fajon and Luka Mesec, the third place will be taken by Danijel Bešič Loredan from the Svoboda Movement. He will also become Minister of Health at the same time.

We will also get three new ministries, namely:

• Solidarity Future, which will deal with housing policy and long-term care and will be led by Luka Mesec,
• Climate and Energy, led by Bojan Kumer,
• Higher Education, Science and Innovation, led by Igor Papič.

In total, there will be 19 ministries and one additional one that will take care of Slovenes abroad. This will be taken over by the Secretary General of the General Assembly Matej Arčon.

The purpose of the new ministries is to have clearer goals in areas where we want rapid change.

Robert Golob, President of the Freedom Movement

The state-building ministries will be headed by:

• Tanja Fajon for Foreign and European Affairs,
• Tatjana Bobnar (former director of police) for internal affairs,
• Marjan Šarec for defence.

Ministerial posts will also be taken over by:

• Alenka Bratušek for infrastructure,
• Klemen Boštjančič for Finance,
• Amalija Žakelj for education,
• Uroš Brežan for the protection of nature and the environment,
• Dominika Švarc Pipan for Justice,
• Sanja Ajanovič Hovnik for Public Administration,
• Matjaž Han for economy, tourism and sports.

Former Prime Ministers Marjan Šarec and Alenka Bratušek and their parties LMŠ and SAB were not elected to the National Assembly. They were invited to the government by the Freedom Movement.

This weekend, they will agree on the remaining ministerial candidates, including for digital transformation, labour, culture and agriculture.

We will set up a strong and solid government quickly and within the set deadlines.

Tanja Fajon, president of SD

They have already agreed on a draft coalition agreement.

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The original version of this article was published on May 11th.

English translation courtesy of JL Flanner, Total Slovenia News, an English language website with news from and about Slovenia.