By: Sara Kovač / Nova24tv
The National Assembly will not sue Prime Minister Janez Janša before the Constitutional Court, as such a proposal did not receive sufficient support at today’s session. Namely, 42 MPs voted for the proposal of the constitutional accusation, while 44 voted against. We will soon announce what today’s decision will mean for the proponents of the constitutional accusation with the comments of analysts.
The parties LMŠ, SD, SAB, Levica, and unaffiliated MPs suffered a new political defeat after the vote of no confidence in the government, as they failed to gather enough votes for the constitutional accusation of Prime Minister Janez Janša. Of the 87 MPs present, 42 MPs of the National Assembly voted in favour of the constitutional accusation, while 44 MPs were against. In order for the National Assembly to accuse Janša before the Constitutional Court, at least 46 parliamentary votes would be needed.
Janša, who came to the Temple of Democracy in the afternoon, said that the constitutional accusation contained “so many absurd things that it makes no sense to answer everything, nor does it make sense to argue about it”. He left the meeting immediately after his address and was not present at the vote.
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In his address, the Prime Minister said that given the number of people vaccinated against covid-19, the number of patients, and the current epidemiological situation in the country, it can be expected that the declaration of covid-19 epidemic will be the last by mid-June, and the country will be able to move to a transitional period when most of the measures will be lifted. He sees a year of recovery ahead of him that will be faster than the EU average.
Janša was defended in the coalition by SDS, NSi, and SMC, where they believe that the accusations in the proposal of the constitutional accusation against Prime Minister Janez Janša do not hold up and that the intention of the proponents of the accusation is political reckoning. The SNS parliamentary group also refused to support the proposal at the beginning. DeSUS also stated in the position of the parliamentary group that the proposal was a populist move, but then announced a vote according to their conscience.
At the beginning of today’s session, the MPs decided on the proposal to ask the President of the Republic Borut Pahor for an opinion on the proposal for a constitutional charge. The decision proposed by the proponents of the constitutional accusation was supported by 36 MPs, while 48 were against, so it was not voted on.
If the draft on the constitutional decision had been voted on today, the Constitutional Court would have ruled on it, writes STA. This proposal was the sixth proposal of the constitutional accusation of the Prime Minister so far. A large majority was filed by SDS MPs, and no attempt to prosecute before the Constitutional Court was successful.