Law professor Miro Cerar vowed bolster to Slovenia's shaky economy Monday as he was voted in as prime minister of the tiny Alpine country. The political newcomer, 51, who won snap elections on July 13 despite having set up his centre-left party just a month before, said he would push for jobs and growth.
He faces a tough task of putting the eurozone country's finances back in order after the past two governments fell after little more a year after being hit by corruption trials and political infighting. But the leader of the main opposition Slovenian Democratic Party, former prime minister Janez Jansa, slammed Cerar's lack of clear policies. "No candidate to head a government has ever presented a programme without any figures or deadlines," said Jansa, who was allowed to attend Monday's session despite serving a two-year jail prison term for corruption. A commission is currently probing whether he should remain an MP.
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