Slovenia's Prime Minister Janez Jansa on Friday accused his political rivals who were trying to bring his government down, were in fact covering up those at fault for the difficult economic situation the country was in and urged his supporters to resist "left-wing fascism".
"It is necessary to counter left-wing fascism, violence and chaos. These are the greatest foes to freedom and justice and Slovenia simply will not allow this to happen", Jansa said via a video screen to a two-hour rally of around 12,000 supporters in Ljubljana's Kongresni trg Square.
Other speakers at the rally said that they could not allow Jansa's opponents to force him to resign and for the coalition government to be brought down. They assess that alleged corruption scandals being attributed to the PM and recent protest rallies were an attempt to destabilise the political scene during a sensitive period in the country.
Jansa is currently attending an EU summit in Brussels and addressed the rally via a video wall. He said that the real reason behind the moves to destabilise his government lay in his attempt to rehabilitate Slovenia's banks and unify government property into a single holding in order to disclose who received loans on political grounds from banks that grew into lossmaking financial institutions or who benefited from tycoon-wise privileged privatisation of public property.
Later in the afternoon, Jansa's opponents are to hold another mass protest rally in the same square in continuation of similar rallies held over the past few months demanding amongst else that his government stand down and an interim government be installed until early elections are held.
