Referendum o volebním systému ve Slovinsku v roce 1996 jako nástroj tranzitivní justice?
Referendum about the Electoral System in Slovenia in 1996 as a Tool of Transitive Justice?

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to analyse the discussion about the electoral system in Slovenia during the 1990s. In the first part of the analysis we focus on the transitional electoral systems in East-Central Europe and its main characteristics. Later we present the specific development and preconditions in former Yugoslavia and Slovenia during the period of transition. Our analysis focuses here not only on the technical issues (electoral system and electoral mechanism), but also on the more general framework of party competition based on the initial cleavage Communism against Anti-Communism. In the main part of the study we analyse in detail the development towards the plebiscite about the electoral system in December 1996 and the controversial decision of the Constitutional Court about the result of the plebiscite two years later. This decision is often evaluated as legal, but not legitimate and was not accepted neither by the majority of political actors, nor by the society. The discussion about the electoral system we include into the broader debate about the transitional justice in new democracies.

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