The Supreme Court of Slovenia annulled the result of the September referendum on the law governing the financing of the second railway track between the port of Koper and the inland hub of Divača. A new referendum on the second rail track act will be held in the near future.
The Supreme Court reiterated the position of the Constitutional Court, stressing that parts of the referendum act and the so-called Act on the Construction and Management of the Second Railway Track of the Divača to Koper Railway Line are unconstitutional. The Supreme Court said that the government’s decision to spend 97,000 euros on the referendum campaign was “unacceptable because the campaign only highlighted the positive aspects of the second rail track act.”
“The Supreme Court acknowledges there are upsides to the bill, but we can’t deny that it also poses major risks,” said Erik Kerševan, the Supreme Court’s rapporteur. Moreover, the arguments of the opponents were not presented in the same way as the arguments of the proponents.
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