Slovenia is celebrating the Day of Uprising Against Occupation on Saturday, a holiday honouring the resistance against Nazi and Fascist occupation during WWII. A number of ceremonies took place around the country last evening, including the main state ceremony in Črnomelj, and a number of events are planned for today as well.

Former President Borut Pahor posted on X on Saturday that he was working on a draft outline for the continuation of dialogue between Belgrade and Prishtina as part of his efforts to vie for the role of a special representative of the EU for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue and other Western Balkan issues.

Slovenian Embassy in Washington, D.C., was vandalised last evening. The suspected perpetrator has been apprehended and while the motive is not yet clear, the authorities are treating the event as an isolated incident.

The Foreign Ministry condemned on Saturday vandalism of monuments commemorating fallen Slovenian and Italian Partisans and anti-Fascist near Rome and in Trieste on the eve of the Italian Liberation Day, observed on 25 April.

The most recent poll released by the commercial broadcaster POP TV on Saturday shows that the Democrats (SDS) would get four of Slovenia's nine seats in the EU parliament, two more than they currently hold. The Freedom Movement would get two seats, and one each would go to New Slovenia (NSi), the non-parliamentary Vesna party and the SocDems (SD).

The National Assembly endorsed on Friday a resolution on a national programme for the prevention and suppression of crime for the period 2024-2028 and a resolution on a national programme for the prevention of domestic violence and violence against women.

Monika Pekošak, an MP for the senior coalition Freedom Movement, resigned on Friday, with the National Assembly already taking note of her move. She cited personal reasons. She is likely to be succeeded in parliament by Dimitrij Zadel, the former chairman of port operator Luka Koper.