Have democratization processes been a catalyst for the Europeanization of party politics in Slovenia?

It was connected very closely with two main processes of political modernisation that had happened at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s. First, there were gradual processes of liberalisation and later democratisation, which were results of social and political struggles between the old Slovenian political elite and the growing civil society, which was the base for new opposition parties