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"Goodbye to early elections," says Slovenian daily Dnevnik on its front page illustrated by a photo of out-going Prime Minister Borut Pahor waving to photographers shortly after the fall of his centre-left government on September 20. The minority government led by the Social Democrat leader lost a vote of confidence, it had itself initiatied, in the Parliament, the paper explains. The President of the Republic, Danilo Turk, precipitously left New York, where he was attending the United Nations General Assembly, in order to find a solution to "a political crisis which has become more serious," the paper adds. Turk has seven days to propose a new Prime Minister to Parliament, while the country remains without government "in the middle of a global financial and economic crisis," Dnevnik notes. If Turk and the Parliament can't agree on a candidate, early elections should be held at the end of 2011 or early 2012.
