Janez Poklukar, a 42-year-old doctor-turned health manager who has been leading Slovenia's largest medical centre through the biggest ever health crisis, was appointed new health minister by the National Assembly on Tuesday.

Most of the deputy factions lavished praise on Janez Poklukar's work as hospital manager so far as they pledged to support him for health minister in the vote in parliament later on Tuesday. Only two centre-left factions explicitly announced they would vote against his appointment, but even those held nothing against him.

The Constitutional Court has stayed the implementation of provisions of the seventh economic stimulus law under which employers may unilaterally and without grounds terminate the employment contract when a worker meets old-age retirement criteria. The constitutional review was initiated by trade unions.

Slovenia reported 899 new coronavirus cases from 4,369 PCR tests on Monday in what is an increase compared to a week ago when a similar total of tests was conducted. Eight Covid-19 patients died. The 7-day average of new daily cases grew from 744 to 767 in daily comparison, show fresh government data.

A new airline named SouthEast Airlines is emerging in Slovenia, web aviation portal Sierra5 reported on Tuesday, adding that the airline will initially provide mainly charter flights using Airbus A320 fleet. At first, SouthEast Airlines is to focus on EU markets with the first licensed commercial flight planned for early June.

The National Assembly will hold an emergency session on Tuesday to vote on the appointment of Janez Poklukar, the director of the University Medical Centre Ljubljana (UKC Ljubljana), for health minister after he was backed in a 10:4 vote by the parliamentary Health Committee.