STA, 11 February 2022 - A new movement has been set up in Maribor that will strive to abolish Covid restrictions on all levels of society and for normal functioning of education and healthcare. If necessary, the movement will turn into a party and stand in the upcoming general election, said its founders in Maribor on Friday.
According to Gaber Marolt, coordinator of the Movement of the Free and Well Informed (Gibanje Svobodni in Ozaveščeni Slovenije - SOS), the country's fight against the epidemic is "completely misguided" and the restrictive measures "are causing nothing but harm".
After analysing the current political options, the movement's founders came to a conclusion that none of the existing parties promises normalisation of the current situation in the country.
"Since we can actively affect the situation in the country exclusively from parliament this conclusion has led us to decide that a movement or a political party must be created in Slovenia that will ensure normal life without pointless restrictions," said Marolt, Aleš Goršak, Iris Magajna and Žiga Legat, representatives of the movement.
The SOS will be an "independent folk's movement" that will strive for a new type of rule, where the goal will be a society that is "based on achievements, facts that can be checked, mutual respect and trust".
The focus will be on the people, freedom, and welfare, human rights will be respected and laws will be clear and fair, the founders said.
Their priority will be efforts to normalise the conditions at schools, lift Covid restrictions, make informing on Covid-19 and other diseases more transparent and allow free movement of people and goods.
Individuals from the movement have so far been active in various initiatives stressing the rights of children.
In cooperation with some other initiatives, the movement is filing into parliament today a demand for expanding early treatment of Covid, for which they had collected several hundred signatures.
