Slovenia entered a pre-election silence ahead of Sunday's parliamentary elections in which around 1.7 million citizens will vote for 88 members of parliament. The race is tight and the outcome uncertain.

The latest polls show that the ruling left-liberal movement "Freedom Movement" of Prime Minister Robert Golob leads by a narrow margin, partly thanks to the spy scandal that shook the opposition.

The Slovenian intelligence agency SOVA presented material evidence before the National Security Council that representatives of the Israeli private intelligence firm "Black Cube" had visited the SDS headquarters of Janez Jansha in Ljubljana in December.

Anonymous videos of prominent Slovenians at business meetings abroad recently circulated online, and later turned out to be fabrications linked to non-existent companies.

Regardless of the results, forming a new government is expected to take time due to the narrow margins between the left-liberal and right-wing political blocs.