Posted on 10/04/2004 3:54:32 AM PDT by fdsa2
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia Oct. 3, 2004 — Slovenia's Prime Minister Anton Rop conceded defeat after preliminary results showed the center-right opposition winning Sunday's parliamentary elections, putting it in power for the first time since the country's 1991 independence.
Janez Jansa's Slovene Democratic Party held 29 percent of the vote six percentage points ahead of Rop's Liberal Democratic Party with just over half the vote counted. Some 1.6 million voters were eligible to cast ballots in 3,400 polling stations across the country.
"A much needed political change has come to Slovenia and we have the program and the people to carry out that change," Jansa told private Pop television.
Rop's center-left party has ruled for all but a few months since the former Yugoslav republic gained independence. The party's crowning achievement came earlier this year when the country joined the European Union and NATO.
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