What would it be like if the Partisans were peacekeepers?
The joint meeting of parliamentary defense committees and foreign policy on the promotion of arms expenditures and militarization has passed in a populist tone. State Secretary for National Security in the Prime Minister’s Cabinet Vojko Volk wondered what it would be like if the Partisans were peacekeepers.
Leader of the Levice parliamentary group Matej Tašner Vatovec He has accused Slovenian external and security policies, led by coalition partners, from SD and freedom, that he traditionally advocates the naked posture until the NATO pact and core countries, and that in recent years it has completely eliminated the requirements to spend more public money for the army and arms.
Instead of the Prime Minister Robert Golob the joint session of both parliamentary committees was attended by his State Secretary for National Security Vojko Volkwho said that a resolution on new defense methods is emerging, covering both defense, security and resilience. It is a « triple that will make the country resistant to natural and human threats, which are not only war but also migration and terrorism. »
The opposition bothered that only peacekeepers, not defense experts or diplomats, were invited to the meeting.
In the following, the wolf used his debate for a political showdown with the Peace orientation of the Left Party, as well as invited to the meeting, which mostly belong to both the peace camp in Slovenia. « Peaceism died when he was chased in June 1991 by thin Yugoslav armies, » Volk said, wondering what would happen if the Partisans were peacemakers. « Talking about what it would be like if the Partisans were Partisans Peace Peace, » Vatovec said to him.
State Secretary at the Ministry of Wear Boštjan Pavlin warned that a series of flaws were discovered in national exercises 2024. Defense expenditures, according to his country, must increase in order to complete the tasks that are given to us. State Secretary at Foreign Ministry Melita Gabrič However, she recalled the fulfillment of the commitments to the NATO, where in 2014, as a state, we committed ourselves to the purpose of devoting 2 percent of GDP to defense.
Opposition MPs, especially Reberšek from Nova Slovenia, accused the Lions of populism, and that he uses the theme of arming to raise his assets. The opposition bothered that only peacekeepers, not defense experts or diplomats, were invited to the meeting.
The Left has proposed four decisions for acceptance. Three were also rejected by coalition. For example, the one under which both committees urge the government to advocate the EU institutions and NATO to reduce the planned expenditures of Member States to a maximum of 1.5 percent of GDP. However, the coalition majority in both committees voted to the decision to propose the committees to the National Assembly and the Government to carry out a broad and inclusive public debate in relation to the increase of public expenditures for defense purposes, before making a final decision to increase defense spending.
