The Slovak constitution was adopted on September 1, 1992. (source: Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic)
Slovakia’s constitution, adopted 30 years ago, is referred to in some legal circles as a “shopping list”.
Since that day on September 1, 1992, just four months before Czechoslovakia split into two countries, different parliaments and the Constitutional Court adopted 20 amendments to it – and politicians unsuccessfully tried to change it more than 150 times.
Today, experts believe the country’s supreme act of legislation needs to be treated with more respect.
“The constitution is not a shopping list to which anyone can add anything just because they don’t like something, for example, a ruling by the Constitutional Court,” said Via Iuris, a non-profit organisation that advocates for the protection of the rule of law.
