Slovenian parliamentary election, 2011
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A parliamentary election for the 90 deputies to the National Assembly
of Slovenia
will be held on 4 December 2011. This will be the first early election in Slovenia's history.
. However, on 20 September 2011, the government led by Borut Pahor
fell after a vote of no confidence.
As stated in the constitution
, the National Assembly has to elect a new Prime Minister within 30 days and a candidate has to be proposed by either members of the Assembly or the president
within seven days after the fall of a government. If this does not happen, the president dissolves the Assembly and calls for a snap election
. The leaders of most parliamentary political parties have expressed opinion that they prefer an early election instead of forming a new government.
As no candidates were proposed by the deadline, President Danilo Türk
announced that he would dissolve the Assembly on 21 October and that the election will take place on 4 December. Some questions were risen whether the President can dissolve the Assembly right after no candidates are proposed. However, since this situation is not considered in the constitution, the decision to act on October 21 was welcomed by the political parties.
The dissolution of the Assembly, a first in independent Slovenia, took place on October 21, a minute after midnight.
National Assembly (Slovenia)
The National Assembly is the general representative body of the Slovenian nation. According to the Constitution of Slovenia and the Constitutional Court of Slovenia, it is the major part of the distinctively incompletely bicameral legislative branch of the Republic of Slovenia. It is unicameral...
of Slovenia
Slovenia
Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...
will be held on 4 December 2011. This will be the first early election in Slovenia's history.
Background
The election was previously scheduled to take place in 2012, four years after the 2008 electionSlovenian parliamentary election, 2008
Parliamentary elections for the 90 deputies to the National Assembly of Slovenia were held on 21 September 2008. 17 parties filed to run in the election, including all nine parliamentary parties...
. However, on 20 September 2011, the government led by Borut Pahor
Borut Pahor
Borut Pahor is a Slovenian politician who has been Prime Minister of Slovenia since 2008. A longtime president of the Social Democrats party, Pahor served several terms as a member of the National Assembly and was its chairman from 2000 to 2004. In 2004, Pahor was elected as member of the European...
fell after a vote of no confidence.
As stated in the constitution
Constitution of Slovenia
The Constitution of the Republic of Slovenia was adopted by the Slovenian National Assembly on December 23, 1991. The document is divided into ten chapters:# General Provisions# Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms# Economic and Social Relations...
, the National Assembly has to elect a new Prime Minister within 30 days and a candidate has to be proposed by either members of the Assembly or the president
President of Slovenia
The function of President of the Republic of Slovenia was established on 23 December 1991, when the National Assembly of Slovenia passed a new constitution as a result of independence from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia....
within seven days after the fall of a government. If this does not happen, the president dissolves the Assembly and calls for a snap election
Snap election
A snap election is an election called earlier than expected. Generally it refers to an election in a parliamentary system called when not required , usually to capitalize on a unique electoral opportunity or to decide a pressing issue...
. The leaders of most parliamentary political parties have expressed opinion that they prefer an early election instead of forming a new government.
As no candidates were proposed by the deadline, President Danilo Türk
Danilo Türk
- Early life :Türk was born in a lower middle class family in Maribor, Slovenia . His father died when he was a child. He attended the prestigious II. Gymnasium High school in Maribor. In 1971 he enrolled to the University of Ljubljana where he studied law...
announced that he would dissolve the Assembly on 21 October and that the election will take place on 4 December. Some questions were risen whether the President can dissolve the Assembly right after no candidates are proposed. However, since this situation is not considered in the constitution, the decision to act on October 21 was welcomed by the political parties.
The dissolution of the Assembly, a first in independent Slovenia, took place on October 21, a minute after midnight.
Public opinion polls
| Source | Date | SDS Slovenian Democratic Party The Slovenian Democratic Party , known until 2003 as the Social Democratic Party of Slovenia is a Slovenian centre-right liberal conservative and Christian democratic party... |
LZJ Positive Slovenia Positive Slovenia is a Slovenian centre-left political party, led by Zoran Janković.On 11 October 2011, Janković, the mayor of Ljubljana, announced that he would participate at the early parliamentary election, following the fall of the government of Borut Pahor. The charter of the new party was... |
LGV | SD Social Democrats (Slovenia) The Social Democrats is a centre-left political party in Slovenia, currently led by Borut Pahor. From 1993 until 2005, the party was known as the United List of Social Democrats .-Origins:... |
DeSUS Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia The Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia is a Slovenian political party led by Karl Erjavec.DeSUS was a member of the government led by prime minister Janez Janša until 2008... |
SLS Slovenian People's Party The Slovenian People's Party is a rural-based conservative political party in Slovenia. Formed in 1988 under the name of Slovenian Peasant Union as the first non-Communist political organization in Yugoslavia, it merged with the Slovene Christian Democrats to form the present-day party in 2000... |
NSi New Slovenia The New Slovenia – Christian People's Party or simply New Slovenia, NSi is a Christian democratic political party in Slovenia... |
SNS | TRS | SMS-Z | LDS Liberal Democracy of Slovenia Liberal Democracy of Slovenia is a liberal political party in Slovenia. It is led by Katarina Kresal and is a member of the Liberal International and the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party... |
Zares Zares Zares – Social Liberals is a social-liberal political party in Slovenia. Its president is Gregor Golobič, former Secretary General of the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia and former close advisor to the late Janez Drnovšek, who had previously abandoned active political involvement due to... |
GzS | Avion Avion Avion may refer to:* Avion, the french name for airplane ; coming from latin "avus" . Same family as "aviation".* Avion * Avion... |
Other | Don't Know | Won't Vote | Won't Answer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Last election | 2008 | 29.3% | - | - | 30.5% | 7.5% | 5.2% | 3.4% | 5.4% | - | - | 5.2% | 9.4% | - | - | 4.05% | - | 36.9% | - |
| IFIMES | October 13 | 31.2% | 11.2% | 13.7% | 11.9% | 7.5% | 3.6% | - | 5.1% | 2.2% | - | 5.6% | 2.4% | - | 2.8% | 2.8% | - | - | - |
| Delo | October 14 | 19.3% | 19.4% | 6.0% | 4.1% | 5.3% | 3.1% | 3.2% | 3.2% | 3.7% | - | 1.7% | 1.0% | 0.4% | - | 0.2% | 20.5% | 8.9% | - |
| Finance | October 21 | 21% | 16% | 18% | 11% | 6% | 4% | 3% | 2% | 2% | - | 3% | 1% | - | - | 3% | 6% | 5% | - |
| Ninamedia | October 22 | 19.1% | 13.0% | 12.8% | 7.2% | 6.0% | 3.6% | 2.4% | 2.4% | 1.6% | - | 1.3% | 1.0% | - | - | 0.5% | 20.5% | 8.3% | - |
| FUDŠ | October 23 | 15.5% (37) | 8.3% (15) | 6.1% (12) | 3.0% (7) | 2.3% (5) | 1.6% (4) | 1.5% (4) | 2.1% (4) | 0.2% | 0.5% | 1.6% | 0.2% | 0.1% | - | 1.4% | 52.3% | 3.3% | - |
| Mediana | October 25 | 16.5% | 12.5% | 17.2% | 6.1% | 3.7% | 4.3% | 0.9% | 2.0% | 1.7% | - | 1.1% | 0.7% | - | 0.8% | 4.4% | 15.3% | 8.9% | 4.0% |
| Vecer | October 26 | 18.8% | 6.7% | 11.2% | 3.9% | 2.3% | 1.3% | 1.3% | 1.3% | 0.9% | 0.3% | 0.7% | 0.9% | - | - | 7.2% | 32.3% | 9.4% | 1.4% |
| Ninamedia | October 29 | 27.7% | 21.6% | 24.9% | 7.3% | 7.7% | 3.0% | 1.8% | 1.1% | 1.8% | - | 1.4% | 1.1% | - | - | 0.6% | - | - | - |
| FUDŠ | November 2 | 20.5% | 12.7% | 23.8% | 2.6% | 4.2% | 2.6% | 2.1% | 2.7% | 1.1% | 1.0% | 1.1% | 0.5% | 0.2% | - | 0.6% | 24.1% | 0.3% | - |
| Episcenter | November 4 | 24% | 17% | 23% | 6% | 5% | 4% | 1% | 2% | 2% | <1% | 1% | 2% | - | - | 1% | 11% | - | 3% |
| CRJM | November 4 | 18% | 15% | 18% | 4% | 3% | 1% | 1% | 2% | 1% | - | 1% | 1% | - | - | 0% | (34%) | (34%) | (34%) |
| Ninamedia | November 11 | 29.7% | 18.4% | 23.2% | 7.8% | 6.3% | 4% | 2.6% | 2.2% | 2.2% | - | 1.5% | 1.2% | - | - | 0.9% | - | - | - |
| Delo | November 12 | 17.7% | 15.2% | 18.8% | 5.4% | 2.9% | 1.2% | 2.1% | 1.7% | 2.1% | - | 1.5% | 0.2% | 0.1% | - | 1.2% | 20.4% | 6.3% | - |
| Mediana | November 13 | 25% | 14% | 19% | 6% | 4% | 4% | 2% | 1% | 1% | 3% | 1% | 1% | - | - | (16%) | (16%) | (16%) | (16%) |
| Ninamedia | November 14 | 29.9% | 18.9% | 15.6% | 14.4% | 5.4% | 3.6% | 3.7% | 3.5% | 2.4% | - | 1% | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Parsifal SC | November 14 | 28% | 17.7% | 26.5% | 7.4% | 6.1% | 3.6% | 2.9% | 2.4% | 3.4% | - | 2% | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Espiscenter | November 16 | 30% | 19% | 13% | 7% | 5% | 8% | 5% | 3% | 2% | 2% | 2% | 1% | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Delo | November 19 | 18.1% | 15.3% | 8.6% | 5.4% | 2.9% | 2.5% | 1.9% | 1.8% | 1.4% | 1.7% | 0.8% | 0.2% | 0.4% | - | (2.3%) | 31.1% | 6.5% | (2.3%) |
| Mediana | November 20 | 27% | 19% | 14% | 8% | 6% | 4% | 5% | 1% | 2% | 3% | 1% | 0% | - | - | 2% | (9%) | - | (9%) |
| Ninamedia | November 20 | 30.8% | 19.7% | 13.6% | 12.6% | 6.4% | 4.8% | 4.9% | 2.2% | 2.2% | 0.3% | 1.2% | 1.1% | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Valicon | November 21 | 28% | 21% | 13% | 8% | 9% | 6% | 4% | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| CRJM | November 22 | 22.5% | 15.9% | 9.3% | 5.6% | 5.9% | 3.3% | 2.7% | 1.4% | 1.8% | - | 0.5% | 0.5% | - | - | 0.5% | (30.2%) | (30.2%) | (30.2%) |
| Vecer | November 23 | 21.3% | 12.5% | 6.9% | 2.0% | 1.8% | 3.4% | 3.3% | 0% | 0.3% | 0.5% | 0.3% | - | - | - | (13.7%) | 25.9% | (13.7%) | 2% |
| Interstat | November 24 | 27.1% | 15.7% | 7.8% | 6.6% | 3.7% | 3.5% | 1.8% | 1.7% | 1.2% | 0.8% | 0.6% | 0.6% | - | - | 0.1% | 16.2% | 11.1% | 1.3% |
| Ninamedia | November 24 | 29.0% | 23.7% | 10.8% | 9.9% | 6.4% | 5.2% | 3.8% | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1.7% | 1.1% | 1.2% | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Episcenter | November 25 | 30% | 20% | 11% | 11% | 8% | 8% | 5% | 2% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Delo | November 26 | 35.5% | 22.7% | 9.2% | 10.6% | 5.4% | 3.2% | 3.2% | 4.4% | 1.5% | 1.3% | 1.7% | 0.4% | 0.1% | - | - | - | - | - |
| Mediana | November 27 | 31% | 18% | 8% | 8% | 5% | 5% | 7% | 3% | 3% | 1% | 1% | 0% | - | - | 1% | (8%) | - | (8%) |
| FUDŠ | November 28 | 37.45% (38) | 19.09% (19) | 8.91% (9) | 11.27% (11) | 5.82% (6) | 3.45% | 4.36% (5) | 0.73% | 2.91% | 2.73% | 2.00% | 1.09% | 0.18% | - | - | - | - | - |
| Mladina | November 28 | 32.4% | 25.1% | 6.0% | 12.1% | 6.6% | 5.3% | 5.2% | 1.5% | 1.5% | 1.4% | 1.5% | - | 0.2% | - | - | - | - | - |
| Radio Ognjišče | November 28 | 30.9% | 19.8% | 8.0% | 12.2% | 7.6% | 4.2% | 5.7% | 2.0% | - | 3.1% | 0.7% | 0.9% | - | - | - | 21.3% | - | - |
| FUDŠ | November 30 | 33.2% | 22.7% | 8.1% | 10.6% | 6.0% | 6.5% | 6.1% | 2.7% | 0.5% | 1.3% | 1.8% | 0.5% | 0.1% | - | - | - | - | - |
| Valicon | November 30 | 31% | 19% | 7% | 13% | 8% | 8% | 6% | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |