The presidents of six parliamentary parties and both MPs of the Italian and Hungarian minorities signed Tuesday a Development Partnership pact put forward by PM Janez Jansa to secure a broad political consensus on structural reforms.
"The Development Partnership is a continuation of a positive tradition of broad political consensus ahead of important decisions, and is an important development document on the political level, first ever in Slovenia," Jansa said after signing the document.
The agreement is important, because is represents a basic framework in which the partners will look for solutions and answers to the Slovenian development challenges, he added.
It is also important because the public will be able to evaluate the proposals more realistically - considering their contents, and not who has put them forward. "This is the basic prerequisite for finding the best solutions within the agreed framework," Jansa also said.
The leader of the opposition Social Democrats Borut Pahor meanwhile said that his party would especially like to stress the importance of social partnership.
"We are certain that there can be no successful reforms without social partnership, and we are willing to accept a political partnership," he added, reiterating that this agreement does not represent a general support for the government.
The deal was not signed only by the largest opposition party, the Liberal Democrats. Its leader Jelko Kacin believes that with the deal the government would like to avoid responsibility and blur the domestic political scene by making the relations between the government and the opposition less transparent.
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