Pro-EU liberals see narrow win in Slovenia as key Italian referendum enters final hours – Europe live
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<p>The result in Slovenia will relieve EU diplomats and means the incumbent will lead exploratory talks to form the next government</p><p>In an unexpected early morning football reference, <strong>Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani</strong> <strong>also encouraged Italians to vote in the referendum,</strong> with a quote from the legendary Yugoslavian football player and later manager <strong>Vujadin Boškov </strong><em>“the match
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04.58 EDT Morning opening: Big election weekend Jakub Krupa It was a big weekend for election watchers around Europe! Slovenia’s incumbent liberal prime minister Robert Golob claimed victory in parliamentary elections on Sunday, as results put his party just slightly ahead of the populist conservatives led by Trump-ally Janez Janša. With 99.85% of the votes counted, Golob’s liberal party stood at 28.62% and the conservatives of veteran politician Janša at 27.95%, AFP reported. The result will come as relief for Brussels as it puts Golob’s party on course to get 29 seats, just ahead of 28 for Janša, and will put the incumbent in a position to lead the tricky exploratory talks to form the next government. “Since we have received the (people’s) confidence, now we can think about going forward under a free sun,” Golob told his supporters last night, inviting other parties to discuss next steps. Meanwhile, we also had big elections in France, where the Socialist Emmanuel Grégoire has been elected mayor of Paris , and Marine Le Pen’s far-right, anti-immigration National Rally failed to take key cities targeted in Sunday’s second round of local elections. Over in Germany, the chancellor Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democrats won an election in Rhineland-Palatinate, taking control over the state from their coalition partners, Social Democrats. Early projections after polls closed showed Merz’s CDU at 30.8% of the vote, ahead of the SPD at 26%, pointing to a victory for Merz after his party narrowly lost an election in the neighbouring state of Baden-Württemberg earlier this month, Reuters said. The two parties are now expected to form a coalition at the state level on the lines of the coalition in Berlin. Finally, we will be looking at the day two of the national referendum on judiciary reforms in Italy today, with the polling stations open until 2pm UK time (3pm local). Italy’s electorate will vote yes or no to approving amendments to the country’s post-fascism constitution ...
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