Daily headlines - Friday, 8 January

DELO

Delo's person of the year
"Exceptional year selects exceptional person": The editorial board of Delo and its readers have selected Mario Fafangel, the head of the Centre for Communicable Diseases at the National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ), the Person of the Year 2020. (front page, 3)

Housing
"A new wave of rental apartments coming": The public Housing Fund will put around 1,500 new apartments on the market this year, most of them in Ljubljana and Maribor. Municipal funds are also entering the market with more than a hundred apartments. (front page, 8)

Protests in US Capitol
"They demand Trump's impeachment": The Senate minority leader, Democrat Chuck Schumer, has demanded that President Donald Trump be removed from office immediately by impeachment after Wednesday's breaching of the Washington Capitol. (front page, 4-5)

DNEVNIK

Coronavirus testing
"Disputable swabs stop mass testing": Sets of rapid antigen tests that the Health Ministry has purchased from the company Majbert Pharm contain swabs without certificates and declared producers. For this reason, some community health centres have suspended the mass testing. (front page, 2)

Protests in US Capitol
"Biden confirmed, they would like to tie Trump's hands": The US Congress has confirmed the presidential election victory by Joe Biden in the shadow of the question how it was possible for a mob of Donald Trump supporters to enter the US Capitol building after Wednesday's rally. (front page, 6)

VEČER

Protests in US Capitol
"The Passion according to America": After a mob of Donald Trump supporters entered the US Capitol building after Wednesday's rally, it took the US Congress to confirm Joe Biden as the winner of the presidential election until Thursday morning. (front page, 2-3)

Coronavirus testing
"Swabs for larynx do not go into nose": Troubles with rapid antigen tests imported from China continue - testing in Ljubljana has been suspended due to inadequate swabs, while two sets of swabs have been delivered to Maribor - ones for pharynges and others for noses. (front page, 4)

Maribor
"Nothing free for culture workers any more": The leadership of the Maribor municipality has decided to stop renting certain premises in Koroška Street to cultural organisations free of charge, and to start collecting commercial rent. (front page, 9)