You might not realise it, but this coming Sunday local municipal elections are to be held in all of municipalities in Slovenia. This link provides a nice path down the rabbit hole that are Slovenian municipalities.
As a result only a handful of municipalities, by some count as few as four , are actually able to independently execute powers devolved to them while everyone else needs money from state budget to continue to play in the sandpit of local politics. Which is why the obvious solution would be to establish regions and devolve some more state powers to them as well as transfer some municipal powers to regional level thus enabling municipalities to pool resources as well as easing the grip local politics has on the national level.
Obviously, this idea goes down like a lead balloon every time someone brings it up. Consequently, local election in Muddy Hollows are a spectacular shitshow of ineptitude, arrogance and the Dunning-Kruger effect , all wrapped up in out-takes from the Deliverance. As per this STA report , there are a number of people who are attempting a return to their glory days. The 90s revival seems to be a thing, though.
Once a fixture in the parliament and a man known for being particularly adept at pork barrel politics , the long-time former mayor of Destrnik is trying to return to former local glory.
The picture is weird enough. A sausage-fest of considerable girth posing with an LGBT-painted automotive icon. Or maybe not. If you catch my drift. The man who lit the spark of the Winter of Discontent and was literally run of the office.
