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Slovenia`s Constitutional court has rejected the request of the SSN party for temporary cease raising signatures for a referendum.
Slovenia`s Constitutional court has rejected the request of the Slovene People`s Party (SSN) to temporarily cease raising signatures for a referendum on Croatian NATO membership until the court passes a decision on the matter whether certain articles of the law on referendum are non-Constitutional, as this party requested.
The Constitutional Court announced it has rejected this request, which means that the 35-day deadline for raising 40,000 signatures runs out on Thursday.
In its announcement, the Court explained that it did not reject the party`s initiative to examine the validity of certain articles on the law on referendum, but that it has rejected the party`s request to suspend implementing the law on referendum until the final provision.
The 35-day deadline for raising 40,000 signatures, as determined by the Parliament for the SSN, runs out on Thursday. Since only 2,000 signatures were raised, the Slovene Parliament might announce on April 2 that Croatia`s NATO accession protocol has taken effect.
The Constitutional Court announced it has rejected this request, which means that the 35-day deadline for raising 40,000 signatures runs out on Thursday.
SSN fails to raise 40,00 singatures
As it is familiar, the mentioned party has started the initiative for Croatia`s NATO accession protocol to be challenged at a subsequent referendum after the Slovene Parliament has already ratified it. The SSN party would have to raise 40,000 signatures in the foreseen deadline. Seeing how the party has managed to raise only 2,000 signatures so far and wants to hamper Croatia`s NATO entry by all means due to outstanding border issues between Croatia and Slovenia, the party has proposed the Constitutional Court examines the law on referendum, two weeks ago.
If this request had been passed, the SSN would get a new 35-day deadline for raising signatures.
