Members of the European parliament Romana Tomc, Milan Zver and Franc Bogovič briefed several European institutions on the developments connected to the national media outlet Radio-Television Slovenia (RTVS) and the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia. They specifically highlighted the Court’s recent ruling, in which the judges, by a vote of four to one, …
The Constitutional Court’s decision to end the suspension of the new Radio-Television Slovenia Act is, in the opinion of MEP Dr Milan Zver, disgraceful, especially if it turns out that one of the judges was, in fact, under severe pressure to adopt it. This would be a case of enormous political pressure. Peter Jančič, the …
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“This polarisation within the Constitutional Court has brought us nothing good, and I will do my best to ensure that with new appointments and new proposals, this kind of thing does not happen again,” said the President of the Republic of Slovenia, Nataša Pirc Musar, in relation to the recent developments at the Constitutional Court. …
Nova24TV has obtained the first bits of information about what was supposedly happening behind the four walls of the Constitutional Court on Friday, when the highly controversial decision to end the suspension of the amendment to the Radio-Television Slovenia Act was made. We also found out what is expected to happen in the coming days. …
The Constitutional Court has lifted the suspension of the government’s amendment to the Radio-Television Slovenia Act and instructed that a new RTV Programme Council must be formed within a week. Voting in favour of the lifting of the order were judges Matej Accetto, Rajko Knez, Katja Šugman Stubbs and Špelca Mežnar. There is currently great …
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When news broke that the Constitutional Court had – for the first time in its history – ruled completely differently than before and thus overturned its own decision, we at Nova24TV immediately reacted. Our Editor-in-Chief, Aleksander Rant, personally called the Constitutional Court and asked if there would be a press conference held on Friday, given …
“The Slovenian Constitution, according to the current composition of the Constitutional Court, apparently allows everything. It allows the introduction of communism. Last March, the Constitutional Court concluded that any advocacy of communism and communist expropriation is compatible with the Slovenian Constitution,” Dr Jurij Toplak, a constitutional lawyer, recently commented on the current developments at the …
After a long legal and political saga, the leftists have announced the dismissal of members of the RTV Programme Council. On the 1st of June 2023, members of the Commission for Public Office and Elections of the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia will vote on a decision that will abolish the legally granted …
The Constitutional Court, which also had the constitutional petition on the amendment to the Radio Television Slovenia (RTVS) Act with Peter Gregorčič – the chairman of the Programme Council of the national media outlet, as a first signatory – on the agenda at Thursday’s session, has still not adopted a decision in this case, the …
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One of the very clear features of the “Freedom ” rule is the interpretation of the rule of law as subordinate to the political will of the authorities. On Wednesday, the former “independent ” journalist-turned-MP Mojca Šetinc Pašek explained this understanding of the state to the public at a meeting of the National Assembly’s Commission …
Last Monday, the Speaker of the National Assembly, Urška Klakočar Zupančič herself, on behalf of the National Assembly, submitted a request to the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia for the disqualification of a Constitutional Court judge, although she clearly had no legal interest in doing so. A few days later, the government also …
In a short article that was presented in the section “Highlighted” (Izpostavljeno), the national media outlet RTV Slovenia presented a brief timeline and the key events that marked the process of developments and decision-making on the amendment to the Radio-Television Slovenia Act. This was the first thing on Robert Golob’s list of priorities since the …
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