[2][3][non-primary source needed] On 26 February 2020 President of the Republic Borut Pahor proposed to the National Assembly Janez Janša as candidate for Prime Minister.

[23] Jelko Kacin, former minister and ambassador to NATO, is the official spokesman of the Staff, he had a similar role during the 1991 Slovenian war of independence.

[43] The period during and immediately after the transition of power was marked by a series of controversial actions and decisions by the incoming government.

[46] The official Twitter account of the crisis office that was meant to inform the public about the epidemic frequently retweeted articles from SDS's official party newspaper and published an offensive and slanderous statement about four prominent critics of the government (saying that they escaped from a mental hospital and were infected with "virus COVID-Marx/Lenin") that prompted a lawsuit against the institution by the subjects of the tweet.

[47][48][49] The official explanation for the inappropriate communications – unauthorised access to the account by an unknown individual – was later refuted by the police.

[50][51] The incident, dubbed "the Mask Affair" by the media,[52][53][54] led to conflicting statements from two government ministers about whether the order was pre-paid and whether the masks were en route or actually never existed,[55][56][52] and reports of sketchy businesses involved in the public procurement process that were anticipating exorbitant profit margins from the deal.

[60] After the parliamentary opposition announced its intention to launch a parliamentary investigative commission to look into the potential improprieties, the government responded by launching its own investigative commission which would additionally to the opposition proposal focus its attention on the failings of the preceding Šarec government's handling of the early pandemic response.

[62] The government decided to carry out press briefings without physical presence of journalists during the coronavirus, a practice similar to those of Austria, European Commission and other.

The dismissed general secretary of police[74] had just recently been admonished by an SDS politician to "consider her future" after she refused to make available information during a parliamentary oversight meeting due to a lack of legal authority for her to do so.

[75] Among the information being solicited were reportedly details regarding a criminal investigation into foreign financing of SDS-affiliated media organisations.

The government also dismissed the head of the national Statistical Office, reportedly because he did not allow an informal government working group (that was tasked with crafting the economic response to the pandemic outfall) to access confidential and highly sensitive raw econometric data collected by the Office.

[98] The police launched – on recommendation from the PM – at least eight criminal proceedings against protesters for using the slogan on suspicion of making death threats.

[100] SDS used the image of a confrontation between a group of Antifa members and police during one of the protests (that involved Antifa pushing and shoving a safety fence in front of the parliament with police pushing back on the other side) for a cover banner for their social media accounts and a billboard political ad campaign.

[104] Multiple Yellow Wests (as they dubbed themselves[104]) wore clothing and/or footwear and/or had tattoos associated with neo-Nazism, and one was briefly seen making a Nazi salute in a recording of the event.

[107][108][109][110] 8 of the protesters were later identified and shown to have affinities for neo-Nazism, with some of them having links to or being high-ranking members of the Slovene Blood & Honour neo-Nazi group.

[116][non-primary source needed] In the Nova24TV interview, the leader of the Jackets – speaking about the risk of a violent confrontation between the group – also stated: "If they wished to attack us, we don't know why they gathered up the courage only after we were separated by police.

And despite the police cordon, the anarchists and Antifa chose to stay at a distance greater than a human hand's reach.

Police later explained that due to possible interruptions it had to close the ceremony area because of protection of foreign guests, especially diplomatic corps.

[118] Before the ceremony anti-government protesters, among which was director Dejan Babosek, verbally attacked the Honorary Guard of the Slovenian Armed Forces.