Finance Minister Dušan Mramor is expected to present a document that is to lay out the groundwork for any future privatisations to coalition officials on Thursday, but divisions had already became obvious at Friday's session of the parliamentary Finance and Monetary Policy Committee.

At the session at which the opposition United Left (ZL) failed in a new attempt to get parliament to repeal its consent of 2013 for the privatisation of 15 companies, the junior coalition partners DeSUS and Social Democrats (SD) initially proposed an amendment for the companies not yet in the process of sale to be included in the state asset management strategy.

However, the two parties withdrew the amendment following coalition consultation during a break in the session. The SD also proposed to the coalition to get into talks with EU partners over a potential change to the list of the 15 companies, but the senior coalition SMC party insisted the companies must be sold.

Speaking to reporters in parliament on Tuesday, SMC MP Simon Zajc repeated the Party of Miro Cerar continued to support a transparent continuation of privatisation as laid down in the coalition agreement. He said it was not just the price but also later positive effects of privatisation which mattered.

"That was our commitment and the previous parliament adopted it. We believe that as a country we cannot operate so that one parliament adopts a commitment one day and the other overrides it the next day," Zajc said about parliament's endorsement in 2013 of the list of 15 state companies for sale.

Erjavec meanwhile aired the belief that the government might fall over privatisation. His party believes that it is not necessary to resume selling off state assets, Erjavec indicated, pointing to insurer Zavarovalnica Triglav and energy company Petrol, which are not on the priority list of 15 firms.

But Erjavec underscored that it was necessary to carry out the sale of the companies the government had committed to sell. He had said last week that any interference in the adopted privatisation package would mean losing credibility, while only parliament could reverse the endorsement of the package.

Erjavec also said today that DeSUS MPs believed even the companies from the package, three of which had already been sold, should not be sold too cheap. He also called for analysing the effects of the sales so far before a continuation in privatisation.

Meanwhile, the head of the SD deputy faction, Matjaž Han, believes that the differences over the issue reflect the split in society. His party voted for halting privatisation, but Han believes it is now high time for the finance minister to present the asset management strategy at last.

The SD expect of the Sovereign Holding that if it must sell, to sell assets transparently and at a reasonable price, also in the sense of the company's future development. Han believes the sale of telco Telekom Slovenije can be halted but only if the price was found unsuitable and not all conditions for sale were met.

The opposition, with the exception of the ZL, support privatisation. But the leader of New Slovenia (NSi) Ljudmila Novak expressed concern today over developments in the coalition, noting that government coalitions had been falling apart over privatisation before.

By contrast, the head of the Alliance of Alenka Bratušek (ZaAB), Jani Möderndorfer, said he did not believe the government could fall apart due to disagreements over privatisation. He expects agreement to be reached among coalition partners in the end.