The parliamentary commission probing into allegedly unlawful financing of political parties interviewed on Friday Bojan Požar, journalist and editor of pozareport news site, to learn who has financed his company Lanaka Media through advertising. According to the daily Dnevnik, the company has generated EUR 1.45 million in profit since 2022.

The parliamentary Constitutional Commission approved on Friday the start of a process to amend the constitution by enshrining the right to cash as legal tender. The will of more than 56,000 citizens, who submitted signatures in support of the motion, cannot be ignored, the commission said, stressing the right to choice.

Both junior coalition parties have expressed opposition to the push for NATO members to increase the defence spending benchmark from the current 2% of GDP to over 3%. The Social Democrats (SD) say that such an amount would be too high, while the Left wonders whether participating in NATO still makes sense in the first place.

President Nataša Pirc Musar started on Friday a series of meetings to consult deputy groups about candidates for the posts of central bank governor and human rights ombudsman. Deputy group leaders remained tight-lipped about their favourites, saying that they would wait for Pirc Musar to nominate them before commenting.

As pyrotechnics again caused serious injuries and fires this holiday season despite many awareness-raising campaigns, a petition against the distribution of illegal firecrackers launched by an NGO ahead of the New Year's has been signed by more than 17,000 people. The collecting of signatures will continue until the end of the year.

The Freedom Movement MPs have tabled a proposal to amend the constitution to introduce preferential voting in general elections. There is enough time to adopt the changes during the current National Assembly term, the MPs said, adding that it is their duty to follow the will expressed by the voters in the relevant referendum.

The Farmers' Trade Union is calling for a thorough investigation into the alleged abhorrent conditions at a poultry farm, which were made public last week. If the footage of the poultry farm depicts the actual situation, that is a hard blow for poultry farmers adhering to EU livestock farming standards, the union wrote in a press release on Friday.