Slovenians rejected a government bill by about 51% to 49% in a binding referendum on Sunday, a setback for nationalist Prime Minister Janez Jansa, whose reform agenda the opposition calls authoritarian. The measure would have forced people summoned by parliamentary inquiry commissions to appear immediately, with no right to challenge the summons in court until the inquiry ended; critics said it would create a "political police". Turnout of about 53.7% was the highest ever for a referendum in Slovenia (a small EU member state of around two million people), and opposition leader Robert Golob had framed the vote as a test of the country's democratic resilience.