Slovenia: Robert Golob's unprecedented breakthrough against the Prime Minister's party in the legislative elections

The party of populist Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa is collapsing in Sunday's Slovenian parliamentary election, which sees the dramatic breakthrough of political newcomer Robert Golob.

AFP - JURE MAKOVEC

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The party of populist Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa collapses in the general elections on April 24, which sees the spectacular breakthrough of a newcomer to politics Robert Golob.

The latter announces that he wants to radically change the country's eurosceptic foreign policy. 

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With our correspondent in Belgrade

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Robert Golob and his environmental Freedom party won 40 seats out of the 90 in the Slovenian Parliament.

He is far ahead of the formation of outgoing Prime Minister

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The right-wing populist party won only 28 seats.

Robert Golob is almost unknown in politics, but he is famous in the business world for having been the highest paid economic official in Slovenia.

Having lost his job, he took the lead of a small ecologist and pro-European party, and began a meteoric rise in the polls in just a few months.

He takes advantage of

, whose sweeping statements have earned him the nickname "Trump of the Balkans".

Robert Golob has announced that he wants to form a left-wing and ecological government very quickly, and he will undoubtedly have the means to do so, since two other similar parties have entered Parliament.

One of them has already made it known that she will collaborate with Golob, who has every chance of becoming the new Prime Minister of Slovenia.

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