So far the current party leader and Prime Minister Alenka Bratušek and founder of the party and the Mayor of Ljubljana Zoran Jankovič have already filed the nomination for president of PS.
The coalition partners have already announced departure from the coalition, should Zoran Janovič be reelected as head of PS. Also in response to Janković candidacy explained, that she would not allow people to get the impression, to use the election of new leader of PS as a lever, to subordinate the prime minister, adding that the "time for games« is irretrievably over and that she will resign as prime minister, should Jankovič be elected head of PS.