“The end of an experience, Golob takes flight”, title the daily Diary, alluding to the name of the future Prime Minister — the Slovenian word pigeon means “pigeon”. The Ljubljana daily believes that Sunday’s vote effectively constituted a referendum against outgoing Prime Minister Janez Jansa: “Slovenes favored liberal democracy against an authoritarian para-republic, a society of merit against a clientelist club, a rule of law against a state of autocracy, a state faithful to European values against a revisionist state. In short, they swept away Jansa, symbol of the retrograde processes that Slovenia has been experiencing for two years.”
For the newspaper Evening of Maribor, the country’s second largest city, the victory of the Freedom Movement and of Robert Golob, a businessman specializing in the distribution of electrical energy, demonstrates that “Slovenia strongly opposes the autocratic regime of Jansa, inspired by that of Orban, as well as a