2020 Slirnian general election
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The 2020 Slirnian general election is scheduled for Thursday, May 5, 2020. These are planned to be the sixth elections in Slirnia to elect the future composition of the Parliament and the next holder of the office of the Prime Minister, since the creation of this office in 1995. With the information provided by the Slirnian Electoral Court as of April 2020, voters will be given with the choice to elect their candidate and parliament composition from the eight political parties and their leaders that were previously registered.
After the elections, the political leader with the most votes, will be holder of the informal title, elected Prime Minister, and his or her future duties as Head of Government will be subject first, of a meeting with the Presidency of Slirnia and later of their performace at the parliament presenting the political programme. The rest of the political parties will be given with the option of handing in their confidence or not to the recently elected Prime Minister; in the case of not giving it, the Prime Minister will hold a new meeting with the Presidency and will expose the programme of his or her party for a second time, where only a simple majority is going to assure him or her, an administration of at least five years. This process can be repeated within no more than two months from the first ballot.
2020 elections in Slirnia come after the 17 years of almost ininterrumpited administrations of the Sotirian Democrats, with the exception of the four years terms of Aleksandar Keşco in front of the Slirnian Democratic Centre. The completion of the process of denationalisation and privatisation of most of the Slirnian economy, several cuts in the budget and the deterioration of a neo-liberal platform proposed by the centre-right governments, have remained key points in the political discussion since 2019 and in the same line, the future of the Euclean membership talks and the different views on regional integration, have positioned parties with moderated views such as the Social Democrats and the Slirnian Democratic Centre as the preferred for winning the elections.
Background
Electoral system
Proposed candidates
Irena Mesić
Social Democrat
Aleksandar Keşco
Slirnian Democratic Centre
Milo Jovanović
Sotirian Democrat
Vidoke Lukšić
Progressive Slirnia
Jelena Žbogar
Liberals-Možemo
Jana Bečić
Socialists-Green Alliance
Tomislav Bandić
Nationalist League
Dražen Josipović
Communist Party
