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Schedule of events in the week between 26 May and 1 June: ...

MEP Milan Zver hopes that more people will go to the polls on Sunday than they did in the past two Eurovotes in Slovenia in 2004 and 2009 (both times, turnout was just over 23.3%). ...

Social Democrats (SD) head and the party's top MEP candidate Igor Lukšič expects his slate will achieve a good result in Sunday's election to the European Parliament. When asked whether he expected victory, Lukšič said that "victory was a very relative matter". ...

The conservative bloc scored a resounding victory in Slovenia's EU election. Exit polls conducted by Mediana and released by POP TV and TV Slovenija suggest the centre right parties picking up five of the eight seats, with three going to the left, which paid a high price for fragmentation. ...

Outgoing Prime Minister Alenka Bratušek believes that the result of the Eurovote held in Slovenia on Sunday will lead to cooperation among centre-left parties. Casting her vote in the village of Stražišče near Kranj, Bratušek refused to reveal who she voted for a month after she left Positive Slovenia (PS). ...

MEP Lojze Peterle, who is vying for his third term in the European Parliament on the joint slate of New Slovenia (NSi) and the People's Party (SLS), expects a positive outcome. "I think [the result] will be surprising," he added. The top candidate on his slate does however not expect the turnout to be surprisingly high. ...

Below is a schedule of events for Monday, 26 May: ...

Election turnout at the Sunday Eurovote has reached 8.29% by 11 AM, with 141,751 out of 1.7 million voters casting their vote, deputy president of the Electoral Commission Peter Golob told the press. The 11 AM figure resembles those from the previous two elections to the European Parliament (8.3% in 2004 and 9.24% in 2009). ...

President Borut Pahor believes the reason for low turnout in elections to the European Parliament held in Slovenia on Sunday lies in the lowered expectations of EU citizens toward the parliament compared to more than two decades ago. ...

Igor Šoltes, the top MEP candidate on the I Believe list, expects voters to "confirm my expectations" in the Sunday election to the European Parliament. He said his small team did a great job doing everything in their power for the best possible result. ...

Slovenian gymnast Sašo Bertoncelj bagged bronze in pommel horse at the European championships in Sofia on Sunday. Bertoncelj earned 15.466 points, coming after Max Whitlock of the UK (16.166 pts) and Krisztian Berki of Hungary (15.633 pts). ...

It will be changeable in Slovenia on Monday with occasional showers and storms in the afternoon. Southerly to southwesterly winds will blow in some parts and temperatures will range from 19 to 25 degrees centigrade. Morning lows will stand between 8 and 14 degrees. ...

Just over 274,100 or 16.03% of Slovenian voters cast their votes in the European Parliament election by 4 PM on Sunday, according to the Electoral Commission deputy president Peter Golob. The turnout recorded in the afternoon is about three percentage points lower than in the 2004 (19.15%) and 2009 (19.21%) Eurovotes. ...

Polling stations closed around Slovenia at 7 PM for what was the third election to the European Parliament since the country joined the EU ten years ago. ...

The conservative bloc scored a resounding victory in Slovenia's EU election. Exit polls released by POP TV and TV Slovenija suggest the centre right parties picking up five of the eight seats, with three going to the left, which paid a high price for fragmentation. ...

Slovenian voters will head to the polls on Sunday to elect eight members of the European Parliament from a selection of 118 candidates on 16 lists ranging from established parliamentary parties to up-and-coming groups. ...

After a mostly sunny and dry morning, changeable weather is forecast for Saturday afternoon with local showers and storms in the Alps and eastern Slovenia. Winds will blow from the south-west. ...

Men's handball club Celje Pivovarna Laško won their 18th championship title after beating Gorenje Velenje 36:27 in Velenje on Friday. Celje won the title two points ahead of Velenje and Maribor came in third. ...

Below is a schedule of events for Sunday 25 May: ...

Clothing maker Aha Mura, which emerged from the remnants of the once proud clothing giant Mura, was sent into bankruptcy by a Murska Sobota court after failing to settle its tax bill on Friday....