The sun shone in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, a country of just over two million inhabitants. People sat in the cafes, talking and laughing. To a casual observer, nothing would have seemed out of the ordinary.
But April 25 was a very special morning: it followed the night of the most important elections in the country’s history, elections in which as many as 1.7 million people voted. Elections in which people were deciding whether Janez Janša, an ally of the nationalist Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, and a fan of former US president Donald Trump, would remain in power.
He failed. He was defeated by a newcomer to the Slovenian political scene, Robert Golob, whose Freedom Movement (GS) won more seats in parliament than all the right-wing parties.
