The weekly Mladina is critical of the government for what it sees as a blunder in the sale of the bank NLB. The government planned to preserve control over the bank through state-owned companies, but then the securities market watchdog said it could not be done. The government obviously walked into this without having prepared properly.

The newspaper Delo is critical of dirty campaigns ahead of the local elections on Sunday, saying that election is no longer a holiday of democracy. In many places, elections have become the disgrace of democracy and many people have simply stopped caring.

Looking at the ten mayoral candidates in Ljubljana, of whom only the top two are household names, the newspaper Dnevnik comments under the headline Disintegrating Power of Olympism that this reflects the erosion of Slovenia's political system in recent years.

Below is a review of the headlines in Slovenian dailies for Friday, 16 November:

The Ski Jumping World Cup season will start this weekend in Poland's Wisla without Slovenia's best jumper Peter Prevc, who needs additional training following his recovery from two ankle surgeries. Timi Zajc, a 18-year-old talent who stood out during the summer, is now the main hope of the Slovenian team, which has a new headcoach.

Slovenians will head to the polls on Sunday to elect 212 mayors. Some of the mayors seeking re-election have been in office since their municipalities were incepted, others have not been unseated for nearly two decades. About three dozen sitting mayors will not face a rival at all.

Standing halfway between Ljubljana and Maribor, Celje has been facing environmental issues and a drain of young people, having recently lost the title of the third-largest city in Slovenia. But everything suggests that there will be no change after local elections as long-time Mayor Bojan Šrot is virtually unrivalled.