Please note that the petition requesting Štromajer's resignation has so far been signed by just shy of 5,000 people and NOT by just shy of a thousand. A corrected copy follows.

Ljubljana, 13 January - PM Marjan Šarec responded on Monday to a Christmas greeting by Education Ministry State Secretary Jernej Štromajer on Twitter and the backlash it caused, saying that the post was "highly inappropriate" for a senior state official. He added that if Štromajer were a member of his party or his cabinet, he would have been dismissed immediately.