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Slovenia's parliament approves a new centre-left government

FILE PHOTO: Winner of Parliamentary elections Robert Golob addresses a news conference after an informal meeting with Slovenia's President Borut Pahor in Ljubljana, Slovenia, April 26, 2022. REUTERS/Borut Zivulovic

Slovenia's lawmakers approved a new centre-left government on Wednesday of Prime Minister Robert Golob, who leads a new party and replaced populist premier Janez Jansa promising to make people proud.

Fifty-three deputies in the 90-member parliament endorsed a government comprised of ministers from Golob's Freedom Movement party, Social Democrats and the Left, who formed a majority coalition after a national election last month in which Freedom Movement beat Jansa's SDS. Twenty-eight MPs voted against.

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