Populism is a global phenomenon, also detected in Slovenia, which, under the pretext of being democratic, actually limits democracy. It separates the society into two parts: the people and the elites, while the right-wing populists also exclude the other from the people. Although the described discursive strategy is present worldwide, agents implement it differently, depending on the regional characteristics of the individual populism's origin. I prove this by analyzing right-wing populism in Slovenia on the basis of the web portal Nova24TV. In my thesis, I present an analytical overview of the main concepts of populism and its phenomena in the East and the West as well as describe and interpret the results of a critical discursive analysis of 24 selected articles from the web portal Nova24TV. By connecting the theoretical and empirical parts, I conclude that Slovenian right-wing populism is region specific and historically framed. Through the three dimensions of the separation of the society – nationalism, communism and culture – populism reflects the Slovenian socialist heritage and its process of gaining independence. The populist separation styles that separate the society on the basis of nationalism and communism directly reflect its regional background, and I therefore label them as original. On the contrary, the separation style shows many similarities with western types of populism through the third dimension. Although the separation style based on culture is duplicated, it remains combined with the ideology that reflects the specific Slovenian cultural background.
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