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Dear journalists, welcome.
As I have already mentioned,

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the organization
of sporting events in Slovenia

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is an important opportunity for us,
for the development of sports,

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tourism, the economy and it makes
our country more recognizable.

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The government's support
of organizing the Olympic Festival

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in Maribor was
never in question,

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on the contrary.
The previous government

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decided that we go ahead
with this project.

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In 2022,
we allocated €3 million

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for the renovation
of Tabor sports hall.

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You know it
has been renovated.

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In the Annual
Sports Programme,

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this government provided
€3 million for the renovation

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of Poljane stadium.

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The Sports Foundation
will add €100,000.

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The state paid
more than €6 million

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for the organization
of the EYOF.

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We are talking
about the infrastructure.

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We fulfilled our promise

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to build
sporting infrastructure.

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After the EYOF,
the infrastructure

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will be available to the citizens
and I hope they will use it

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and that it will encourage
young people to do sports.

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This will be one
of the biggest events in Maribor

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and the organizers
need €3 million more

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which the government
provided today.

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The Ministry estimated

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that this event
is very important.

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I just want to give you
one piece of information.

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Almost 4,000 young people
from all over Europe will come.

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They are 14-18 years old.

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1,000 other people
will accompany them,

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coaches, accompanying people, and
of course, there will be spectators.

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This is a big opportunity for
Maribor and the surrounding cities

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and most of all, for Slovenia.
Slovenia has proven

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to be a great host.

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When Maribor said
they need €3 million,

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the PM and I were in contact
with them every day.

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I want to thank
the PM for the support.

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The Ministry
has allocated the funds

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and we will give them
€2.5 million for the organization

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and €325,000
for the sports equipment.

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We solved the issue.
I look forward to the Festival.

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I have my fingers crossed
for our athletes

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and I wish Maribor,
the organizers and volunteers

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a good organization
and I thank them.

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Thank you.
Are there any questions?

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No? Something else?
-Yes.

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Go ahead. It is you.
I didn't see you.

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Metka Majer, Pop TV. I have
a question regarding another topic.

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Go ahead.
-It was already announced last week

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and now it happened.
Vzajemna has filed a lawsuit

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because the premiums were limited.
Did you talk about it?

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No.
Thank you for the information.

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I saw it in the media
that they will file a lawsuit

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because the government
passed a decree

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to limit the price.
The court will decide

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who is right. I think the government
did something good for the citizens

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because the price
was too high

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despite inflation.

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The Ministry passed

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the Law on Controlling Prices
which made it possible

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to regulate the prices.
The Ministry of Health

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made calculations
and limited the price to €34.70.

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But, are you counting on it
that it won't be justiciable?

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I don't dare to comment
on the judicial proceedings,

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but the state shall be prepared
to defend its decision.

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One more topic. Yesterday,
the government has decided

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to remove the Law on Institutions
from the proceedings.

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Did you have some doubts in SD?
-Yes.

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On this topic.
Why have you decided that?

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You know, how it is. Coalitions
are always somewhat demanding.

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Each party has a little
different view on something.

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We have estimated that this law
could be controversial.

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And the government has
on a correspondence session

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removed the law from proceedings.

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We have seen it all in the past.

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I am happy
that we can withdraw a little

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to make a few steps forward
in the future.

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Was this really suspended
or are you going to review it?

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To be honest,
at the moment, I can't...

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I don't know, what was
agreed upon on the coalition summit,

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but the law as it is,
won't be adopted.

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Thank you. -Thank you.
-Thank you and goodbye.

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Nobody on the internet has
a question. -I'm sorry, I just left.

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Okay.
-Thank you.

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The next one is the Minister
of Justice Dominika Švarc Pipan.

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The government has determined
the text of the proposal

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for changing three Articles
of the constitution,

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which could unburden the work
of the Constitutional Tribunal.

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More about it shall tell us
the Minister of Justice

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Dominika Švarc Pipan.
-Hello.

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The government has today established
the text of the proposal

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for changing the  Articles 160,
161 and 162 of the constitution

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with the draft
of the Constitutional Law.

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It referred them to the National
Assembly for consideration.

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The main goal of this proposal is
a better control in the Tribunal.

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For quite some time, it is alarming
and it means a risk

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to the right to trial
within a reasonable time.

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One of the factors of this tendency
is a wide range of authority

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of the Constitutional Tribunal,
which is not compliant with its role

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and it doesn't enable it
to effectively fulfil its role.

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The Tribunal has a role
as the Court of First Instance

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and as the highest keeper of the
constitution and human rights.

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With its decisions should
establish the high standards

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as a guide
for other courts and agencies

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when deciding
on the rights and obligations.

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Therefore, the core
of the proposed solutions is

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to limit
the range of this authority.

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However, not in a way
that these limits shall lead

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to inappropriate restrictions
of the right to access the Court.

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Our main guide
was therefore to ensure

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a balance between the right
to access the judicial protection

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and the right to trial
in a reasonable time.

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To put it even more simply,

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the goal of this change
is to ensure

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quicker and more effective
protection of constitutionality

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and human rights without
limiting the access to the Court.

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In this context,
the solution of the proposed changes

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is introduction of so called
relative or limited discretion

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of the Constitutional Tribunal
in the selection of issues.

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I have to emphasize,
this is not unlimited discretion

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or the right to free choice
of the Tribunal.

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The proposal provides
certain safeguards

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that avert the risk of excessive
restrictions on access

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to the Constitutional Tribunal.

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Thus, the proposal provides
that Constitutional Tribunal

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shall decide on its own,
which issues it shall consider,

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but it has to take into account
systemically important issues,

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importance of the constitutional
question as a whole,

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as well as importance of the issues
of the individual applicant

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or applicants
of the constitutional complaint.

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It has to consider the importance
of the violated human rights

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and fundamental freedoms.

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As additional, and in my opinion
important safeguard or restriction

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of the discretionary right,
is an anticipation in the proposal

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that the decision on whether
the Constitutional Court

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will accept the case or not

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can be made by a minority of three
Constitutional Court judges.

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A positive vote of three
Constitutional Court judges

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will be sufficient for the court
to accept the case.

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One more safeguard,
or an additional risk,

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limiting access to constitutional
protection reduces the wide circle

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of so-called
privileged petitioners,

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which would only be defined
in the Constitution.

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Now this is a matter of law.
These are those petitioners

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whose petitions the Constitutional
Court must always consider.

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It is also new that this list
would now also include

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the President of the Republic
among other authorities.

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Let me mention only a few
other more important changes

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this proposal foresees.

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One of the key ones

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is the possibility
that in the future the legislator

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could transfer certain other powers
of the Constitutional Court

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to another competent court,
to the regular courts,

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by means of a law passed
with a simple two-thirds majority.

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The proposal of
the constitutional law adopted today

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explicitly foresees
the transfer of certain powers

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from the Constitutional
to the Administrative Court,

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namely the decision
on disputes regarding jurisdiction

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between the state
and the local community

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and between the local
communities themselves,

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and the assessment
of the constitutionality

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and legality
of spatial executive acts.

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Thank you. Any questions?

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Yes.
-Go ahead.

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Metka Majer, Pop TV.

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What was the reason
for these changes?

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Is there some consensus
in the coalition regarding this?

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I assume there is.

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What does that mean in numbers,

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how much would that relieve
the Constitutional Court?

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Thank you.

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Yes, the proposal
is coalition-coordinated,

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that's why we are
submitting it.

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The agreement was for the proposal
to be submitted by the Government,

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because it is a very
professional issue,

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and it has broad professional
and political or coalition support.

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We hope that the proposal
will be considered

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at the next session of the
Constitutional Commission

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scheduled for the end of May.

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As I mentioned, the key goal
and therefore also the key reason

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for this proposed amendment

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is the ever-worsening caseload
of the Constitutional Court.

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The total sum of pending cases
at the end of the year

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has been increasing
for almost a decade.

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The idea of changes such as we are
proposing today is not entirely new.

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A similar, slightly different idea
was proposed in 2010.

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But at that time it did not receive
sufficient support.

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The essential difference
from that proposal is

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that at that time it provided
a practically absolute discretion

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of the Constitutional Court
to choose which cases to consider.

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As said, we introduce certain
safeguards in this proposal.

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This is also the part where
we expect the greatest effect

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for reducing the number of
pending cases in the annual reports.

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That is,
faster resolution of cases,

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because currently
the Constitutional Court

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receives an extremely
large number of cases,

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initiatives and constitutional
appeals every year.

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It has to deal
with each one individually,

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and this also causes
these big delays.

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That's why we went for this
solution that will be crucial.

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So the Constitutional Court
has some kind

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of free choice to a certain extent
which cases it will consider.

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Have you reached out to the
opposition regarding the changes?

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We discussed
or presented the proposal

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to all coalition
parliamentary groups,

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as well as preliminarily
to the NSi.

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During the proceedings

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we will of course also present it
to the SDS parliamentary group.

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Then the Constitutional Commission
will see how much support

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there is for the proposal.

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But no current case
is a reason for this?

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As said,
this is a professional debate

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that has been going on
for more than a decade.

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Until now, in some way,
even in the past mandates,

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at first glance there wasn't
sufficient majority for support

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or this proposal has not been
renewed in the past.

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We are in a situation where the
caseload of the Constitutional Court

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is really becoming so problematic
that people,

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especially in the procedures
of constitutional appeals

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due to alleged violations
of human rights,

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are waiting for a decision
of the Constitutional Court

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for several years. You know
the same goes for citizens

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in proceedings
for the constitutional review

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of constitutionality
and legality.

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There are cases
of procedures

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on the previous government's
anti-corona decrees,

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where issues needed
to be resolved quickly

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for the Constitutional Court's
decision to have any effect,

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but it took so long that the
legislation was no longer in force.

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This broad range
of competencies

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and the fact
that the Constitutional Court

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receives a range of issues that may
or may not be within its remit

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have led to a situation
where the Constitutional Court

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often passes judgement on matters
that are no longer relevant

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or the violations
can no longer be remedied.

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I have other questions.
-Any more questions on this topic?

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You have already responded
on social media

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to recent events related
to the abolishment of a holiday.

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How would you comment
the accusation

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that the Coalition
is declaring a new civil war?

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I deeply regret
that ideological differences

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and ideological discussions,

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which often reach
points of conflict

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between political parties
and even citizens,

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have now escalated
to a completely different level.

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To the level of a call to arms,
violence and self-defence.

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A narrative
or rather rhetoric of civil war,

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which leads
to the intimidation of the people

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and can also lead to further
unpredictable escalation

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toward actual outbreaks of violence
or the use of force.

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As evidenced
by recent tragic events

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in our neighbourhood
and around the world

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such calls can, intentionally
as well as unintentionally,

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prompt people to take matters
into their own hands.

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This is completely unacceptable.
I emphasised on Twitter yesterday

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that ideological differences
and discussions are one thing.

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We can even argue,
though both sides would rather not.

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Ideological debates
always become emotional and heated,

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but that is entirely different

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from actually starting
a rhetoric of civil war

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and calling to violence
in this context.

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Yesterday we also reported

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a suspicion of criminal conduct
related to these tweets

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to the appropriate authorities

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and today we sent an official
notification of criminal conduct

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to the District
State Prosecutor's Office.

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It is a report
of various criminal acts,

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which are seen as hate speech
under Article 297.

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The suspected criminal acts include
public incitement of violence,

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as well as
calling to armed revolt

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and overturning
the constitutional order.

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This matter will now
be taken over and continued

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by the appropriate investigative
and prosecutorial authorities.

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The Ministry of Justice
has officially sent this report

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to the District
State Prosecutor's Office today.

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All right, I have some other
questions, also regarding violence.

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New Slovenia presented
a range of proposals today

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regarding violence in schools
due to recent events.

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They would like the Ministry
of Justice to examine the option

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of instituting a criminal act
of online violence

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like certain European countries.
What is your opinion on this?

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I do not know
about these proposals yet

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as I have been in the
government meeting until now.

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We will examine them and comment
on them when we are able to.

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One more question.
Regarding the public sector,

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new guidelines and a new mandate
were to be decided on today.

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This applies to your area as well.
What has been said regarding this?

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This is a question for the
Minister of Public Administration.

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We did come to certain agreements,
but it would be more appropriate

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for the Minister of Public
Administration to comment on this.

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Regarding
the Ministry of Justice,

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there are two dimensions
to these talks.

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Part of our stakeholders
is from the public sector,

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whom the current
negotiations guidelines concern.

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Another part are officials,

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prosecutors, judges
and a few state attorneys,

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who are discussing
the wage reform

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with the Ministry
of Public Administration

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separately from public sector
unions. Just to clarify.

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And how do these
negotiations go?

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I believe
that the officials' negotiations

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have lately become
more constructive.

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We have intensified
these meetings.

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There was a change
in the meantime

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where judges negotiated
separately from prosecutors.

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I said that
I find this inappropriate

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and that they should
have these talks together.

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We have
reached this agreement

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and negotiations with the
Ministry of Public Administration

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are now continuing with both
judges and prosecutors. Thank you.

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Any other questions?

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No? -Thank you.
-Thank you all for attending.