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| Slovenians rejected the amendment to the law on parliamentary inquiries in a referendum. |
| ¼ub¾ana, 12.10.2026 |
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| In a binding referendum held on Sunday, Slovenian voters narrowly rejected an amendment to the law on parliamentary inquiries. However, in three other referendums—which were merely consultative—the majority sided with the solutions proposed by the government in Ljubljana. This is according to near-final results released by the State Election Commission after the counting of over 96 percent of the votes, as reported by TASR citing the STA news agency.
Of those who voted, 50.5 percent opposed the new rules—which restrict the range of individuals eligible to appeal against parliamentary inquiries—while 49.5 percent supported the amendment. The referendum was initiated by civic associations after the new right-wing coalition passed the legislation in May, prior to the official appointment of its government.
Opponents of the amendment—including the left-wing opposition, several non-governmental organizations, and trade unions—argued that the new law could create a "political police." Conversely, the governing coalition and its partner, the populist party Pravda, argued that the new rules would streamline the work of parliamentary inquiry committees, STA reports.
The number of voters opposing the amendment stood at 430,729, thereby exceeding the threshold of 339,706 votes required to reject it.
In the remaining three referendums, voters sided with the governing coalition and the cabinet. The proposal to introduce a work requirement for social benefit recipients garnered the most support. When asked whether they agreed that the payment of social benefits to able-bodied individuals should be conditional upon the active performance of community service work, 61.2 percent of voters answered "yes," while only 38.8 percent were opposed.
A majority of voters—55.9 percent against 44.1 percent—also expressed support for stripping citizens of third countries of their right to vote in municipal elections. Voters thus endorsed legislative changes that the governing majority had already approved in June.
At the same time, a narrow majority of 50.7 percent of voters supported the abolition of license fees, which serve as the primary funding source for the public broadcaster RTV Slovenija; 49.3 percent of voters opposed the measure.
According to nearly complete results, voter turnout reached just under 53 percent, the STA news agency reports. This marks the second-highest referendum turnout since Slovenia declared independence—surpassed only by the 2003 vote on the country's accession to the EU and NATO, in which over 60 percent of eligible voters participated. The highest turnout in history was recorded during the 1990 independence referendum, when more than 93 percent of voters went to the polls.
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