An independent candidate looked set to take the coveted post of Ljubljana major in Slovenia's local elections on Sunday, exit polls showed, Reuters reported. However, opinion polls predicted Prime Minister Janez Jansa's Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) conservatives would come out the strongest nationwide. Official results were still coming in. The exit polls showed independent Zoran Jankovic, a former businessman seen as being left wing, got around 67 percent of the vote for mayor ahead of another independent the SDS had backed, not having its own candidate. Candidates running on Jankovic's ticket got 45 percent of the vote for the council ahead of the SDS with 10.4 percent.
