Slovenia PM to seek confidence vote
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenia's prime minister says she will seek a confidence vote for her government which has been battling a financial crisis in a bid to avoid an international bailout.
Alenka Bratusek said Friday the vote will be about "trust and the question of whether we are all willing to work for Slovenia and its citizens."
Bratusek took office last March after the previous, center-right government fell over allegations of corruption and slow reform.
Her government has moved to cut public spending and heal Slovenia's ailing banks. Bad bank loans are at the center of crisis in the small eurozone nation, once considered a model of eastern European transition.
Local media have reported Bratusek faces opposition within her own Positive Slovenia party. The date for the vote was not immediately set.
