Candidacies for Prime Minister-Designate to be Submitted by Midnight

Ljubljana, 23 April - PRIME/MINISTER/DESIGNATE/DEADLINE
The deadline for submitting candidacies for the second round of parliamentary voting on prime minister-designate is set at midnight. Slovene Parliament failed to appoint Andrej Bajuk as prime minister-designate at its extraordinary session last Thursday. However, Bajuk's candidacy was filed by the newly-emerged SLS+SKD Slovene People's Party and the Social Democrats (SDS) again on Friday.