Slovenian Prime Minister Borut Pahor has said that he does not rule out a possibility of early elections, but stressed that Slovenia must not be brought into a situation having a rump government at the times of a new economic crisis and instability in the eurozone.
"The political classes must reach agreement on how to elect a new government at early elections, avoiding in the meantime not useful blockade in decision-making," Pahor said in his interview published by the Maribor-based Vecer daily on Friday.
He said that Slovenia could not risk a political crisis in the current international circumstances.
The Pahor government currently enjoys support of 33 deputies in the 90-seat Slovenian parliament after some of junior partners left the ruling coalition.
In addition, the Slovenian Minister of the Interior Katarina Kresal on Wednesday tendered her irrevocable resignation after a government anti-corruption commission stated in a report that there existed "elements of corruption" in a deal between the ministry of the interior and a private businessman.
In the recent months Kresal and her Liberal Democratic Party (LDS) were the main coalition partner to the Social Democrats of PM Borut Pahor whose minority government is experiencing a major drop in ratings and facing the threat of early elections by the end of this year, and her resignation has dealt a new blow to Pahor's government.
Pahor should get five new ministers in his cabinet during the autumn meeting of the parliament and political pundits find it difficult for him to get a greenlight from the parliament for a budget revision which is why they think that he should accept the Opposition's proposal for early elections by the end of this year.
