As we have previously reported, in an interview on the national media outlet, RTV Slovenia, the Prime Minister admitted to presenter Rosvita Pesek that the infamous and constitutionally controversial law on RTV Slovenia was written by the Legal Network for the Protection of Democracy (Pravna mreža za varstvo demokracije), a far-left NGO that was mainly …
A few days ago, the Slovenian public was upset by the nomination of the next Constitutional Court Judge who, if elected, would replace Marjan Pavčnik, who resigned from the post by requesting early dismissal. Dr Neža Kogovšek Šalomon does not have the proper legal background for this position, and her past performance shows that she …
The Council of Christian Churches and the Islamic Community in Slovenia addressed a joint statement to the government and both houses of parliament at the weekend to raise “concern over the changing of fundamental concepts of our society” after the Constitutional Court recently legalised same-sex marriages and adoptions. They say the decision undermines the constitutional …
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“Therefore, it is even more important that the initiative to review the constitutionality of Vizjak’s law was submitted by the company Interseroh, and not, for example, Odlazek’s company Recikel. Thus, they achieved at least two things: they hid ties between the interest groups related to the Čeferin family of lawyers, which is extremely important since …
At the administrative session, the Constitutional Court elected Matej Accetto the next president of the Constitutional Court. He will take office on December 19th, the Constitutional Court said. At a time when criticisms of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia are more severe and serious than ever – the institution has found itself …
“The Constitutional Court’s decision U-I-155/20-24 regarding the constitutionality of paragraph four of article 39 of the Communicable Diseases Act and the relevant government decree reaches the level of being unreadable. Even a lenient editorial board of a lenient, semi-serious legal journal would return something so badly written to the author and refuse to publish it. …
For more than a year now, we have been witnessing the process of renaming of Titova Street in Radenci. “But such a name, which is, among other things, a symbol of mass crimes against humanity, also affects the human dignity of (even the still living) victims and their close descendants, as well as anyone with …
Constitutional judge Klemen Jaklič spoke for Radio Ognjišče about his separate opinions on the anti-corona decisions we have witnessed recently. Initially, the judge touched on one of the most pressing topics in recent times, namely the latest decision of the constitutional court, which withheld the restriction of rallies due to a pandemic. He announced that separate opinions …
Modern Centre Party (Stranka modernega centra – SMC) MP Jasna Murgel announced the following on the social network Facebook in 2015: “We will replace the Constitutional Court judges.” And her statement turned out to be prophetic, as since then, some candidates who were to the liking of the left actually took the positions of Constitutional …
