Several thousand people turned to the streets in downtown Ljubljana on Friday afternoon protesting against political elites, yet another in a series of protest rallies held in several Slovenian cities over the past month.
The rally was mustered up on Facebook and organisers expected a turn out of at least 5,000 people.
Police cordoned off parliament building, which was a hundred metres away the site of the rally.
Most of the posters and slogans carried during the protest were against Prime Minister Janez Jansa and Ljubljana Mayor Zoran Jankovic in the wake of an anti-corruption report incriminating them of corruption.
Ljubljana Archbishop Anton Stres said for the latest issues of a Catholic newspaper Druzina, that the protests could be justified for social reasons but they also had also a political slant aimed at causing confusion during the current crisis.
Stres added that the protestors were turned to the past and nostalgic for the old order of "self-administered direct democracy" from the communist era.
