Ljubljana - Prime Minister Janez Jansa may seek a recount after Slovenia's centre-left opposition took a one-seat lead in parliamentary elections, media reports said Monday.

With absentee ballots from Sunday's voting still being tallied, the Social Democrats appeared poised to take power in the European Union nation of 2 million sandwiched between the Alps and the Adriatic.

But Jansa, a combative conservative who has led the prospering former Yugoslav republic since 2004, said he hoped that support from 46,000 eligible voters abroad might overturn the left's 12,000-vote lead.

"We can't talk about a relative winner yet," local media quoted him as saying.

Ljubljana/Helsinki- The office of Slovenian Prime Minister Janez
Jansa on Tuesday dismissed reports that he accepted bribes from Finnish
arms maker Patria.

Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) claimed the company paid 21
million euros (30 million dollars) to Slovenian officials to help
clinch a deal for the sale of 135 armoured personnel carriers.

In addition to Jansa, the recipients included civil servants in the country's defence ministry, the report said.

YLE said Jansa played a "key role" in the selection of Patria for
the 278-million euro deal and channeled some of the bribe money into

Ljubljana  - Disgruntled after they were put in the same basket with other public servants, Slovenian judges launched a three-day warning strike Monday, pressing the government for status and wage