Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Promises in the air: Golob and Fajon's parachutes for Gaza

On June 11, 2024, Prime Minister Robert Golob and Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon announced, at a heavily publicized event before the United Nations, that our country would organize a parachute collection drive to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza by air.

As humanitarian needs increase daily, the moment had finally arrived for our small but determined nation to make a tangible, practical contribution towards alleviating the crisis.

Today, however, we've learned that the Golob–Fajon duo has collected exactly as many parachutes as the Luka Mesec–Simon Maljevec duo has built promised non-profit rental apartments.

0 (in words: zero).