Marjan Dikaučič remains justice minister after 42 MPs voted in favour on Monday of a motion of no confidence tabled by five opposition deputy groups, four short of the required majority. He was endorsed by 28 MPs as several deputy groups, including the junior coalition NSi, abstained.

Igor Samobor, the director of Ljubljana's SNG Drama theatre, has resigned due to what he described as government foot-dragging over the badly needed renovation of the building of Slovenia's largest theatre.

The retrial in the infamous sawn-off hand insurance fraud case continued on Monday, with Julija Adlešič - the woman whose hand was sawn off, her partner Sebastien Abramov, and his parents all pleading guilty. The Ljubljana District Court found the defendants guilty and sentenced them to prison terms.

Slovenia saw its daily coronavirus count drop on the week before for the third straight day as 1,389 cases were confirmed on Sunday. However, more than half of the PCR tests were positive, and beds available for intensive treatment of Covid-19 patients are all but full, official data show.

Justice Minister Marjan Dikaučič dismissed allegations in the ouster motion against him, which is debated in parliament on Monday, saying his work was not the actual basis for the criticism, rather he was facing the motion only because he is a minister in the current government.