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The European elections, right in the middle of Robert Golob's mandate, represent a milestone that marks the first half, or you could also say the first measurement of the intermediate time on the way to the parliamentary elections, which will most likely be in 2026. Unless they happen to appear early. After the European elections, it seems that for the first time in this mandate, thinking about this possibility is starting to emerge more seriously. The SDS is definitely going for the first time, which exceeded 30 percent and won as many as four out of nine parliamentary mandates, a surprise among which is Zala Tomašič, who with preferential votes made it to an enviable second place, ahead of her is only Romana Tomc, as the ticket holder . Nova Slovenia also managed to survive, but Peter Gregorčič remained just below the threshold, who single-handedly led SLS to an enviable percentage, over seven, which more than enables entry into the national parliament. The question is whether he will embark on this journey. The Social Democrats also narrowly survived, although they recorded a heavy defeat and lost one of the two parliamentary seats, and after half of the votes were counted, it was already indicated that they could be completely without. There were also sour faces in Svoboda, which maintains primacy in the coalition with two mandates, but is already seriously weakened and on the way to the collapse of new faces. The Svoboda movement is no longer a serious factor for the next mandate, Bojan Požar believes. But it's still a factor in it. It will not be as difficult to fill the vacant position of the Minister of Defense, which the elections threw to Brussels, even against his will, as any other ministry, but it will be more difficult to stop strikes and fulfill any promise. Since the beginning of the mandate, the government has had a sea of unrealized ones, before the European elections, it started distributing new ones on a large scale, from apartments to helicopters, and last but not least, the voters also demanded a preferential vote in the referendum. The echo of the week is a show where we look at the events of the past week with a critical distance and put them in the appropriate context with comments. This time Peter Merše and Bojan Požar commented for you.