Premier Janez Janša has to date not received the two invoices discussed with Lipa group Deputy Barbara Žgajner Tavš during the Slovenian Prime Minister’s parliamentary question time on Friday. In her question, she asked the PM to define the financial sustainability of the Republic of Slovenia in the light of the country’s demographic structure.

 

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Deputy Barbara Žgajner Tavš based her question on the case of two senior citizens whose pensions she maintained are too low. Among other things, in the course of a substantive answer, Prime Minister Janez Janša offered to make up the difference from his own salary until the end of the present term of office, provided that Mrs Žgajner Tavš submitted two invoices to him for the amount due to the two citizens in question, and he invited the deputy to match his offer.

 

Later in the parliamentary session, during the exposition of a procedural proposal, the deputy replied that she would be “pleased to submit the two invoices to the Prime Minister.” She has, however, so far signally failed to do so. She was therefore contacted by the Prime Minister’s Officer on Friday afternoon and invited to submit the two invoices so that the Prime Minister would be able to keep the promise he had given before the National Assembly. Despite this and despite her publicly expressed willingness to do so, we have not yet received the invoices from the deputy. 

 

The Office of the Prime Minister expects Mrs Žgajner Tavš to keep her publicly-given word and submit the two invoices. We therefore again invite her to do so. The Prime Minister will thus be able to keep his word and pay the two citizens the amount stated on their invoices until the end of this term of office. The deputy is, of course, invited to do the same.