Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia

After the party's entry into Janša's 3rd government the divisions within the party became increasingly public, culminating in all 5 of the party's MPs as well as Health minister Tomaž Gantar calling for the resignation of Aleksandra Pivec in August 2020.[12] During the summer Pivec had become embroiled in a series of allegations of corruption and inappropriate behavior after making visits to a winery and the coastal town of Izola, the costs of which were covered by the private company Vina Kras and the Izola municipal government.[13][14] This culminated in a public media spat between Pivec and the DeSUS parliamentary group with Pivec alleging she was being undermined by underground elements of the party and its former leader Karl Erjavec. The situation further escalated as various regional party branches voted to either support Pivec or call for her dismissal. As the national party council under the direction of Tomaž Gantar prepared to convene and vote on a motion of no confidence against Pivec and a motion to dismiss her from her position, she announced that such a dismissal would be illegitimate (as she believed only the national party congress could remove the party leader) and that she was prepared to fight it. A motion of no confidence was passed by the DeSUS national council on 22 August 2020. The vote for her dismissal was scheduled on 9 September, but Pivec resigned just before it took place and Gantar took over as acting leader[15] (despite the party's statute putting the three deputy leaders of the party ahead of him in the line of succession). On 5 October she also resigned as agriculture minister and deputy prime minister as the National Assembly was set to remove her from these functions. She has since left DeSUS but vowed to remain in politics.[16]

At the December 2020 party congress Karl Erjavec once again became party president.[17] The party's MPs were opposed his idea of leaving the governmental coalition, whereas the party leadership supported it[18] (The disagreements between the leadership and the parliamentary group continued until the conclusion of the contemporary National Assembly term in 2022, preceded by further division among MPs themselves[19]). Erjavec left the party on 10 March 2020 and was replaced by Anton Balažek as the party president.[20] He was later replaced by Brigita Čokl as acting president. Ljubo Jasnič was then elected in party elections on 19 June 2021 with 54 delegate votes out of 117.[5] Despite his opposition to prime minister Janša, DeSUS de facto remained part of his coalition government.[21] Jasnič eventually lead the party at the 2022 parliamentary election, where for the first time in its history, it secured no seats.[8]