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Katja Kokot wrote that the right is financing the campaign with party funds and defends its positions with party members, while the Left is said to be using not only party money but also funds from non-governmental organizations, including millions from abroad, which she referred to as "Soros money." She added that the Left is also defending its positions with the support of non-governmental activists and public RTV. She asked whether this is still democracy or a competition of capital and power against common sense. She described the map of the referendum results on the amendment to the law on parliamentary inquiry as a representation of that common sense; according to her explanation, the dark blue areas voted against, while the light blue ones voted in favor. She also mentioned that at her home polling station and the surrounding ones, about 70 percent of votes were in favor of all four questions. In this context, she wondered where Slovenia is headed and whether power would belong to foreign capital, and wrote that the nation would write its own judgment. #demokracija #Slovenija #referendum (translated)

Katja Kokot noted that the amendment to the law on parliamentary investigations was passed in June, and non-governmental organizations then collected signatures and submitted them in September. She added that there followed 30 days of campaigning, during which the Constitutional Court made a decision in September that, in her view, changed the situation. She believed that the court essentially agreed with the purpose of the law, which was intended to prevent the halting of parliamentary investigations through appeals to the Constitutional Court. #parlament #zakonodaja #UstavnoSodišče (translated)

Zala Klopčič wrote that, in her opinion, the portal Oštro censored the publication of the Nova Smer association about the referendum. She claimed that the head of Oštro, Anuška Delić, is the organizer of the political campaign for the same referendum and that she opposed the law late during the debates. She added that Oštro is now censoring the posts of supporters of the law and asked whether this is about a political police. #cenzura #politika #referendum (translated)

Borut Rončević wrote that the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport will hold a reception for diamond graduates on Saturday, October 24, 2026, in Brdo pri Kranju. He described their achievements as a source of pride for Slovenia and expected a unifying role from the President of the Republic. He pointed out that receptions in honor of young people and their knowledge should not become a campaign venue for the presidential elections in 2027. https://t.co/Fedq1QGppk #Izobraževanje #Mladina #PonosSlovenije (translated)

The drone attack on the Russian data center Yandex disrupted the operation of that facility, but fortunately, no one was injured, and the incident is considered part of a new retaliation campaign by Kyiv against Russian internet infrastructure. #Yandex #Ukrajina #Rusija (translated)

Ida Gabrielsson wrote that the Left Party, unlike most other parties on the red-green side, had not campaigned primarily with the message of saying no to the Sweden Democrats (SD). According to her, the party had not repeatedly talked about an SD government, presented proposals for twelve SD ministers whom she described as more or less uncouth, or warned that Jimmie Åkesson could become prime minister. She wrote that the Left Party also believed that SD was wrong, but that voters needed to know what policies they were voting for. Gabrielsson thought that the negative campaigns and the political representatives' approach to each other had made it confusing to distinguish between SD and the other Tidö parties. She emphasized that the rhetoric had come from, among others, Ebba Busch, Simona Mohamsson, and moderate ministers, and that the politics had been presented jointly. According to Gabrielsson, the Left Party had therefore primarily focused on the policies it wanted to change. A campaign solely against SD risked, she wrote, appearing to target a group of people and giving someone the opportunity to adopt a victim role. She also believed it was contradictory to claim to be able to collaborate with everyone except SD, or preferably with the Tidö parties without SD, while campaigning on a different policy. Gabrielsson wrote that the Left Party had campaigned on its own policies and with Magdalena Andersson as a candidate for prime minister, well anchored in the red-green side. Therefore, according to her, the Left Party should not have to settle for having achieved a no to SD. #politik #Val2024 #rödgröna (translated)

The USA has introduced new sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) just a few hours after former ICC judge Navi Pillay received the Nobel Peace Prize, which represents a continuation of the current administration's long-standing campaign against this court. #ICC #NobelovaNagrada #DonaldTrump (translated)

Swedish Peace has nominated Tomoko Akane, the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, and Emergency Response Rooms/Issa Amro as candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize 2026 for their important work for peace and international law under difficult conditions. #NobelsFredspris #Fred #Nedrustning (translated)

Ida Gabrielsson questioned after a discussion with Martin Ådahl whether there was any other party that the Center Party considered sufficiently acceptable. She wrote that C had tolerated the Social Democrats and the Green Party because they had previously agreed to govern with bourgeois economic policy so that C would not collaborate with the Sweden Democrats. At the same time, she argued, C had criticized S for its migration policy and rejected the Left Party despite V agreeing with C on the issue. Gabrielsson contrasted this with what she described as a contradiction in the Center Party's rhetoric on decency. She pointed to ministers from the Moderates whom she considered increasingly Trump-like and accused them of going after journalists and conducting negative campaigns, as well as statements from the KD leader, the right's talk of voters as voting cattle, and comments from Member of Parliament Lars Beckman (M) and Alice Teodorescu (KD), whom she described as conspiracy theorists. She wrote that Ådahl and C seemed to believe that the former alliance parties did not really support their current policy, but had been kidnapped by SD and deep down wanted to return to the era of Fredrik Reinfeldt. Gabrielsson argued that Ådahl and Magdalena Andersson seemed to think that the parties would return to the center when the Tidö cooperation ended. She called the view condescending and emphasized that the changes could also have been made deliberately and voluntarily. During the election campaign, Gabrielsson stated, she had spoken with a leading center-right politician from Stockholm about more people voting for SD in the area where she grew up. She recounted that she had highlighted material and social reasons for dissatisfaction and mentioned a neighbor who worked almost around the clock on his farm and cleared snow in half of Norrland during the winters. According to Gabrielsson, the center-right politician had responded that a difficult life did not excuse a vote for SD, as others with difficult lives did not vote for the party. Gabrielsson also relayed that her father, who grew up in Ockelbo, used to refer to C and the farmers as "the right aristocracy." On Tuesday, he had told her that he had closed the door on a DN Kultur journalist who wanted to discuss the family's background and life in the countryside and in the industrial town of Åmotsbruk. Her father had also criticized C as the worst party of the day and said he preferred the party when it was at least a farmers' party. Gabrielsson wrote that she had corrected him, but at the same time agreed that a party with 7 percent could be perceived as self-satisfied if it assumed that others would follow its line. #Centerpartiet #Sverige #politik (translated)

Luka Svetina noted that the research, in his opinion, again shows that older voters are the target of campaigns by non-governmental organizations supported by mainstream media. He assessed that they are particularly susceptible to slogans without a solid foundation, including the term "political police," and that because of their numbers, they often decide Slovenian elections to the detriment of younger people who desire change. He added that this generation fell for distraction tactics in the week leading up to the parliamentary elections regarding clips from Anticorruption: according to him, it became more important who recorded them than what was actually in them. Svetina urged conversations with parents and grandparents and to provide them with credible information, including citing laws and commentaries. #Slovenija #politika #generacije (translated)

Three years after the Hamas attack on southern Israel, the genocide in Gaza continues, putting Israeli military action at the center of the election campaign, where the ruling opposition faces numerous accusations of a flawed response to warnings about an impending attack. #Gaza #Izrael #Hamas (translated)

"More than half of the enemy's capacities have been taken out of operation." Ukrainian Defense Minister Yevhenii Khmara said that this is the result of a systematic campaign aimed at weakening Russia's ability to finance and supply the war. #Ukrajina #Rusija #rafinerije (translated)

Regarding the Republic of Srpska, the president of the SNSD party, Milorad Dodik, who could not run in these elections but was the most prominent figure in the campaign, soon after the announcement of the results last night declared victory at all levels of government in the Republic of Srpska. #BiH #izbori #HDZ (translated)