2022: A super election year in Slovenia

The election year 2022 set a record in the number of direct expressing of political will of voters in the recent political history of Slovenia.Citizens went to polls even seven times.The parliamentary elections and the referendum trio were the most echoed and important ones.The former, on one hand, brought political shift to left liberal centre, after two years of the rightwing coalition that misused the pandemics time for strengthening of the autocratic approach.This was most obvious in continuing efforts to dismantle the Slovene Press Agency and the National TV.The latter, on the other hand, focused on the right to clean drinking water for everybody.The presidential elections only confirmed that political trend, bringing victory to the independent candidate from the political centre.Key characteristics of the super election year were the defeat of rightwing parties, huge election turnout and an oustanding activitiy of civil society that contributed significantly to a political change.