斯洛文尼亞總理辭職

Slovenia Prime Minister Miro Cerar resigned late Wednesday over a Supreme Court decision nullifying a referendum in favor of a major railroad project.

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"This was the straw that broke the camel's back," Cerar said in his resignation note to parliament. "The second track project has been hit by another blow taken by those who want to stop Slovenia's positive development. I don't want to be part of such stories."

He plans to submit his resignation to President Borut Pahor Thursday.

Voters in September approved the $1.2 billion project to extend a key rail line from an Adriatic port to the Italian border.

But the Slovenian Supreme Court ordered a new vote, saying the government unfairly influenced voters to approve the project.

Cerar said the rail line would be of "strategic importance for the development of Slovenia."

Cerar says his center-left coalition is leaving the country in much better economic shape than it was when it took power in 2014.

Parliamentary elections are set for June, but Cerar's resignation may move them up.斯洛文尼亞總理米羅·採拉爾（Miro Cerar）星期三晚上辭職。此前，斯洛文尼亞最高法院裁決，支持一項大型鐵路工程的全民公決無效。

採拉爾在給議會的函件中說：“這是壓垮駱駝的最後一根稻草。第二軌項目再次受到那些想阻止斯洛文尼亞積極發展的人的打擊。我不想參與其中。”

採拉爾計劃星期四向總統博魯特·帕霍爾（Borut Pahor）正式遞交辭呈。

斯洛文尼亞選民去年9月投票支持耗資12億美元、把一條重要鐵路線從一座亞德里亞海港口延伸到意大利邊界的項目。

但是最高法院裁決，政府不公正地影響選民，使這一項目獲得通過，因此必須重新舉行公投。

採拉爾說，這條新鐵路線對“斯洛文尼亞的發展具有戰略意義”。

他還說，他的中間偏左政府2014年執政以來，斯洛文尼亞的經濟有了相當大的改觀。

斯洛文尼亞原定今年6月舉行議會選舉，但是採拉爾的辭職可能導致提前舉行議會選舉。