Morning headlines for Slovenia: Monday, May 9, 2022
Pahor called the first session of the new National Assembly for Friday
LJUBLJANA – After receiving a report on the official results of the elections on April 24, President Borut Pahor signed an order convening the first session of the National Assembly for Friday. Both Pahor and the chairman of the National Electoral Commission, Peter Golob, said the election process was “fair and transparent”. Robert Golob, leader of the Freedom Movement, which won 41 seats in the 90-member assembly, plans to form a government with SocDems and the Left by June 3rd.
Simona Semenič received the Cankar Award for three games for girls
VRHNIKA – The author Simona Semenič received the Cankar Award for the best original literature, published last year, for Three Games for Girls, in which she focuses on women’s and sexual issues. Before receiving the € 10,000 prize at Sunday’s ceremony in Vrhnika, the 46-year-old award-winning author said her games deal with the theme of the female body as a training ground for abuse. The award, named after the writer Ivan Cankar (1876-1918), has been awarded for the third year in a row.
Novo Mesto remembers the founder of the Vienna Boys’ Choir
NOVO MESTO – The Bishop of Novo mesto Andrej Saje was massing, and the Archbishop of Ljubljana Stanislav Zore was preaching at the ceremony marking the 500th anniversary of the death of Jurij Slatkonja, the founder of the Vienna Boys’ Choir. Slatkonja was born in Ljubljana on March 21, 1456, when the Slovene lands were under Habsburg rule. He then became a priest and chaplain and cantor at the Viennese court, where in 1498 he founded what later became known as the Vienna Boys’ Choir.
The Catholic weekly Družina is celebrating its 70th anniversary
LJUBLJANA – The family, a Slovenian Catholic weekly, is celebrating its 70th anniversary with a large reading of 100,000. The first issue, which means Family in translation, was published on May 7, 1952. The newspaper was first published as a religious biweekly of the Apostolic Administration for Goriška, Western Slovenia. In 1973, he switched to a weekly format. The name of the newspaper was chosen by the first editor-in-chief Jože Premrov and is supposed to represent the Slovenian nation as one big family.
The Covid case counts down by a third w / w
LJUBLJANA – Slovenia recorded 321 new cases of coronavirus infection on Saturday, only two thirds of the number reported a week earlier, and no deaths among patients with Covid-19, according to data from the Ministry of Health. This morning, 89 patients were treated for Covid-19 in hospitals, four more than yesterday, eight of them in intensive care. The 14-day incidence per 100,000 population was reduced to 531.
Golfist Babnik third at the Madrid Ladies Open
MADRID, Spain – Pia Babnik, the best Slovenian professional golfer, climbed the podium, finishing third at the Ladies European Tour Tournament in Madrid with a prize fund of 300,000 euros. With success at the Comunidad de Madrid Ladies Open, the 18-year-old achieved her third place in the first major tournament of the season, the Chevron Championship in California, USA.