At stake in the European Parliamentary elections was avoiding a major European war that could escalate to unimaginable consequences, as well as ending the genocide in Gaza.

 

 

Consortium News editor-in-chief Joe Lauria talks to Uroš Lipušcek, Slovenian TV correspondent and “peace candidate”in the European Parliamentary elections on Sunday, June 9.

At stake was the most essential issue of all: avoiding a major European war that could escalate to unimaginable consequences, as well as ending the genocide in Gaza. These issues have been fueling 3rd Party and Independent candidates throughout the West, posing a threat to the Establishment.

There remain, however, formidable obstacles to challenging major party consensus especially on the issue of peace and war. Despite the growth of social and independent media, which has sparked efforts by governments to suppress anti-war voices often in league with the private, so-called anti-disinformation industry, the mainstream media still has tremendous clout in shaping an electorate’s knowledge and even its voting behavior.

Such seems to have been the case here in the European elections in Slovenia. On election day we followed the only prominent candidate for peace, the veteran Slovenian TV correspondent who is known to every voter after nearly five decades of reporting from around the world. Despite his fame in Slovenia, the mainstream media, for which he used to work, shut his campaign out.

We begin with a wide ranging interview with him and then follow him to the election booth, to his gathering with supporters to watch the results, and finally to the election center where he addressed the nation live.

Camera & Interviewer: Joe Lauria. Editor: Cathy Vogan.