Judges Cannot Run in Parliamentary Elections in Slovakia Anymore

TY - ICOMM

T1 - Judges Cannot Run in Parliamentary Elections in Slovakia Anymore

AU - Drugda, Simon

N1 - Suggested Citation: Simon Drugda, Judges Cannot Run in Parliamentary Elections in Slovakia Anymore, Int’l J. Const. L. Blog, Nov. 12, 2019, at: http://www.iconnectblog.com/2019/11/judges-cannot-run-in-parliamentary-elections-in-slovakia-anymore

PY - 2019/11/12

Y1 - 2019/11/12

N2 - The change in the Slovak electoral legislation from September 2019 was meant to prevent judges from travelling back and forth between politics and law. The new rules require that judges give up their office to run for a parliamentary election. This contribution reviews the rules on the political activity of judges in Slovakia from 1993 onwards and contextualises this most recent development.

AB - The change in the Slovak electoral legislation from September 2019 was meant to prevent judges from travelling back and forth between politics and law. The new rules require that judges give up their office to run for a parliamentary election. This contribution reviews the rules on the political activity of judges in Slovakia from 1993 onwards and contextualises this most recent development.

KW - Faculty of Law

KW - Judicial politics

KW - Judges

KW - Electoral legislation

KW - Election rules

KW - Right to be elected

KW - Judges in politics

UR - http://www.iconnectblog.com/2019/11/judges-cannot-run-in-parliamentary-elections-in-slovakia-anymore/

M3 - Net publication - Internet publication

PB - Blog of the International Journal of Constitutional Law

ER -