The right of a municipality to self-governance in the Slovak Republic
The right of a municipality to self-governance in the Slovak Republic

Summary/Abstract: This written contribution is dedicated to the right of municipalities to self-governance in the conditions of the Slovak Republic. In the first part of this contribution, the authors analyse theoretical considerations and opinions related to the right to self-government in the environment of municipal self-government. They formulate the conclusion according to which the subject of the given right is the municipality and subsequently they clarify how this right is regulated in the Constitution of the Slovak Republic (hereinafter the Constitution of the Slovak Republic or the Constitution). The second part deals with the examination and evaluation of the content of the given right to the extent that it is enshrined in the Slovak constitution. In the third part, the authors analyse the constitutional guarantees of the right of the municipality to self-governance, while they perceive these on two different levels – in terms of substantive law (Article 67 paragraphs 2 and 3 of the Constitution) and at the procedural (judicial) level applied on the basis of a constitutional complaint. The authors state that the right of a municipality to self-governance in Slovak conditions, despite its specificities, is comparable in form and content to the enshrining of such a right in the constitutions of other democratic states. At the same time, however, they point to problematic, or weak points of the current Slovak constitutional and legal arrangement, indicating the possibilities of their solution as a prerequisite for specifying the analysed law in the conditions of the Slovak Republic.

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