Marko Bucik » Peterle: in search of support

28th Mar, 2007

Peterle: in search of support

Alojz Peterle (better known as Lojze), former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Slovenia, nowadays a prominent EPP Member of the European Parliament, recently announced his standing at the coming Presidential elections. He immediately got the support of his own party – NSi, but failed to get the support of any other major party on the centre-right in Slovenia.

Why am I writing about this? The Youth of the Slovenian Peoples’ Party (Nova Generacija) has announced that it won’t support his candidacy. And knowing the youth politics a bit, there is more behind. Peterle could have more problems gathering political support, than perhaps expected. But: he moved fast and thus put the governing SDS in the corner. Without a solid candidate against, he might well be in to win.

Let’s see what Pahor does.

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[...] This is a short follow-up to the post about Lojze Peterle’s candidacy for the President of the Republic. Pundits have of course long been speculating that Borut Pahor will run as well, as he himself mentioned a few times. Considering the recent ratings, his standing fares above that of Peterle as a potential candidate, but also his party stands close to the governing SDS. According to some surveys, the Social Democrats even lead the polls. As mentioned before, this is partly the case due to Pahor’s personal standing among the electorate and less with the organic growth of the party. But I wanted to turn to something else. [...]

By: Marko Bucik » Pahor might also go for it – with the support from the right? on April 9th, 2007
at 22:07

[...] I wrote here before, the youth wing of the Slovenian People’s Party (SLS) does not support Peterle, now [...]

By: Marko Bucik » Slovenian: Peterle gathering the support on the right, how should Pahor react? on May 13th, 2007
at 12:45