Constitutional Court Marks 13 Years of the Slovenian Constitution
The Constitutional Court held a ceremony celebrating Constitutional Day, which marks 13 years since the Slovenian assembly adopted the first Constitution of the independent Slovenia.
The Constitution, passed in 1991, was a turning point for the Constitutional Court, as it started working as the highest judicial body protecting constitutionality and human rights in a constitutional order that fully respected the division of powers, the head of the Constitutional Court Janez Cebulj said on the occasion.
After the Constitutional Court in 1991 faced the challenge of developing mechanisms of constitutional review that must meet the standards of the rule of law in the broadest sense, this year it must once again rise to a similar challenge brought about by the application of European law, Cebulj said, confident that the court will be successful in doing so.
The commitment to implement Constitutional Court rulings cannot be based on physical but moral and political compulsion, said the former Constitutional Court judge Bostjan M. Zupancic, who is now a judge at the European Court of Human Rights.
"The prestige and respect with which the other two branches of power treat the judiciary are an excellent test of how much a legal and political environment is civilised and cultured," said Zupancic.
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