Slovenia’s government said its intelligence agency has “unequivocally confirmed foreign influences” connected to last weekend’s parliamentary election, raising new questions about election interference after a tight result in which the ruling and opposition blocs traded seats. In a statement issued Thursday following a meeting of the National Security Council, the government said the Slovenian Intelligence and Security Agency, known as SOVA, “presented concrete activities of a foreign para-intelligence agency as well as contacts with Slovenian entities.”
The government said the evidence SOVA collected in Slovenia and abroad has been turned over to law enforcement and prosecutors. “The evidence collected, both domestically and abroad, has in the meantime already been handed over to the competent law enforcement authorities, the prosecutor’s office, and the police,” the statement said. The government did not name the foreign agency in question in the Thursday statement.
The election results themselves remained close as votes were counted after the Sunday vote, according to the AP report. With more than 99% of ballots tallied, Prime Minister Robert Golob’s liberal Freedom Movement won 29 seats in the 90-member assembly, while the opposition right-wing Slovenian Democratic Party, or SDS, won 28. Neither side had an immediate clear winner based on the vote count described in the report.
During the campaign, activists and journalists alleged that videos posted online showed secretly recorded conversations in which people discussed political connections linked to the government. The allegations said the videos were leaked with the aim of swaying voters, and Slovenian authorities opened an investigation, the AP report said. The allegations also claimed SDS and a private foreign intelligence agency were linked to the recordings, based on intelligence gathered by investigators.
The report said SDS leader Janez Jansa acknowledged having contacts with an adviser from Black Cube but denied wrongdoing. The AP report also said Vojko Volk, the secretary of state for national and international security, said last week that Black Cube representatives visited Slovenia four times in the past several months, including in a street in Ljubljana where Jansa’s party has its headquarters.
In a separate statement dated March 20, the government said SOVA’s head, Josko Kadivik, presented “a full account of events that took place between 10 and 11 December 2025,” along with material evidence of connections of three Black Cube representatives—Giora Eiland, Liron Tzur and Dan Zorella—to the visit at Trstenjakova ulica 8 in Ljubljana, where SDS has its headquarters. That March 20 statement added that Kadivik presented findings on Black Cube’s activities in Slovenia and abroad that “likewise demonstrate counterintelligence operations against the Republic of Slovenia and foreign interference in Slovenian elections.”
Prime Minister Golob also urged the European Union to investigate, according to the AP report. For its part, Black Cube told AP in an email that it is “an intelligence firm which provides services exclusively to clients engaged in business activities worldwide, supporting litigations, arbitrations and white-collar crime cases.” The agency said it obtains legal advice in each jurisdiction where it operates to ensure legality, and added: “Corruption is a phenomenon that harms economies and impedes legitimate business activity. Black Cube will continue uncovering fraud, corruption and asset dissipation in all its cases globally as it has consistently done in the past 15 years,” according to the email AP received.