Slovenia selects new prime minister
Slovenia's parliament has overwhelmingly selected Borut Pahor as the tiny Alpine country's new prime minister.
Pahor's Social Democrats won the most votes in the September 21 elections and later sealed a coalition deal with three other parties to secure the necessary majority in the 90-seat chamber.
The Friday vote was 59-24. The remaining deputies were absent.
Pahor is pledging to work on further economic progress for Slovenia, a former republic of Yugoslavia that shunned its communist past to become a member of both the European Union and Nato.
The 45-year-old leftist leader replaces Janez Jansa, whose centre-right party now holds about a third of parliament seats in the country of 2 million.
