00:00Slovenia's Prime Minister has accused foreign services of a direct attack on the nation's
00:04sovereignty following allegations that an Israeli private spy firm met with the main
00:09opposition contender ahead of next Sunday's parliamentary elections.
00:13A coalition of rights groups and investigative journalists claim that Black Cube, a firm
00:18founded by former Israeli intelligence officers, is behind a series of secretly recorded videos
00:23aimed at compromising the center-left government of Prime Minister Robert Golub.
00:28Reports suggest that Black Cube officials visited the capital three times late last year,
00:33allegedly meeting with the main opposition contender, Yanis Yansa, at his party headquarters in December.
00:39Yansa, a three-time prime minister and close ally of Viktor Orban, has dismissed the reports
00:43as unprecedented corruption from the leftist elite, stating his party has no knowledge of the firm.
00:50Foreign Minister Tanya Fallon slammed the alleged activity as an attack against democracy,
00:55while President Natasha Pirc-Moussar warned that the activity seriously undermined the country's
01:00democratic foundations.
01:01The scandal comes as the gap in polls has narrowed between the liberal incumbents and the conservative
01:06opposition.
01:07If Yansa, a vocal admirer of Donald Trump, retakes power, commentators warn it would mark the fall
01:13of another liberal stronghold in Europe, shifting the region further towards the right.
