Jansa Dreams of a ‘Second Erasure’ in Slovenia

Certain members of the ruling coalition parties and (formal) opposition parties chose not to support Karel Erjavec as the new prime minister.

Erjavec thus received only 40 of the 46 votes he needed. Having survived the no-confidence vote, Jansa can now continue disassembling state institutions and dealing with anyone critical of his government.

This political style, based on conspiracy theories and repression, is increasingly present in Slovenia. It is a form of governance based on the exact opposite of humanistic principles.

The existence of Jansa's minority government now depends on the nationalist Slovenian National Party, SNS, headed by Zmago Jelincic, whose policies are based on hatred of everything foreign - presumably following Sartre's principle: "hell is other people".

Jelincic and his party are well known for nationalistic outbursts and scandals. Jansa has, therefore, selected a gang that is willing to commit the most corrupt acts to remain in power.

These are mostly low-capacity individuals, neither up to the tasks of the time and the world we live in nor able to cope with the problems Slovenian society is facing. The more incompetent they are, the stronger their need is to identify with the nation, and with a supreme leader as their highest form of authority.

Jelincic and Jansa aren't newcomers to this situation, and nationalism in Slovenian politics isn't new, either. The first shameful consequence of nationalistic politics, which cast a shadow over Slovenia's independence, was the erasure of tens of thousands of citizens from the registry of permanent residents.

On February 26, 1992, the Ministry of the Interior unlawfully erased 25,671 people from the registry of permanent residents. In doing so,...