Slovenia - Election 2012 - President
Slovenia held a presidential election on Sunday 11 Novemer 2012 with voters choosing among three candidates - incumbent President Danilo Turk, former center-left Prime Minister Borut Pahor and center-right ruling coalition candidate Milan Zver. Pre-election polls predicted that President Turk would place first, with 44 percent of the vote, while Pahor was predicted to gain over 30 percent. Exit polls showed former Prime Minister Borut Pahor with 41.9 percent of the vote, followed by President Danilo Turk, with 37.2 percent, and a center-right candidate Milan Zver at 20.9 percent. The winner must gain over 50 percent of the votes, and a second round of the election would be held on 02 December 2012 with the two top candidates from the initial round. Left-wing former Prime Minister Borut Pahor won Slovenia's December 02, 2012 presidential election by a landslide. Official results give Pahor 67 percent of the vote in Sunday's second round election, to incumbent President Danilo Turk's 33 percent.
On February 27, 2013 the 90-seat parliament voted 55-33 to dismiss conservative Prime Minister Janez Jansa's ruling coalition after just a year of trying to resove the ex-Yugoslav republic's worst economic and political crisis in 22 years of independence. A center-left finance expert, Positive Slovenia leader Alenka Bratusek, was given the task of halting the country's fall from post-communist star to euro zone bailout candidate. Bratusek's government cut public spending, privatized some industries and poured money into the country's troubled banks in its first months in office, doing enough to stave off outside financial assistance from the European Union.
Slovenia's prime minister won a confidence vote in parliament for her efforts to avert an international bailout to fix the eurozone country's troubled banking system. The 50 to 31 vote by lawmakers on November 15, 2013 regarding the 2014 budget gave Prime Minister Alenka Bratusek the political support she needed to find a solution to the country's economic woes without seeking outside help. The government wanted to raise taxes and cut spending to reduce the budget deficit. However, the vote of confidence did not erase the possibility of a European Union bailout.
Alenka Bratusek announced her resignation as Slovenian prime minister on 03 May 2014, just 13 months after taking the reins as Slovenian prime minister. She pressed parliament to call elections next month. Bratusek, to some by far the worst PM in Slovenian history, said she could not govern after being ousted as leader of the Positive Slovenia party. The mayor of the capital Ljubljana, party founder Zoran Jankovic, initiated the coup within the center-left party, saying Bratusek's austerity policies in Slovenia went against the party's election promises. The other three coalition partners in the four-party center-left government said they would drop out of the cabinet if Jankovic, the subject of a corruption investigation, became the party leader.
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