Court Stages Hearing on Municipal Funding Act

Ljubljana, 31 May - The Constitutional Court held on Thursday a public debate between representatives of four municipalities that claim the recently passed municipal funding act ran contrary to the Constitution, and government representatives, who said the act provides for a fairer distribution of funds.

Ljubljana Constitutional Court judges at a public debate on the recently passed municipal funding bill. Photo: Daniel Novakovic/STA

Ljubljana
Constitutional Court judges at a public debate on the recently passed municipal funding bill.
Photo: Daniel Novakovic/STA

Ljubljana Constitutional Court judges at a public debate on the recently passed municipal funding bill. Photo: Daniel Novakovic/STA

Ljubljana
Constitutional Court judges at a public debate on the recently passed municipal funding bill.
Photo: Daniel Novakovic/STA

Ljubljana Constitutional Court judges at a public debate on the recently passed municipal funding bill. Photo: Daniel Novakovic/STA

Ljubljana
Constitutional Court judges at a public debate on the recently passed municipal funding bill.
Photo: Daniel Novakovic/STA

Ljubljana Finance Minister Andrej Bajuk (left), Local Government and Regional Development Minister Ivan Zagar (centre) and Ljubljana Mayor Zoran Jankovic at a public debate on the recently passed municipal funding bill, staged by the constitutional Court. Photo: Daniel Novakovic/STA

Ljubljana
Finance Minister Andrej Bajuk (left), Local Government and Regional Development Minister Ivan Zagar (centre) and Ljubljana Mayor Zoran Jankovic at a public debate on the recently passed municipal funding bill, staged by the constitutional Court.
Photo: Daniel Novakovic/STA

Ljubljana Ljubljana Mayor Zoran Jankovic (third from left) at a public debate on the recently passed municipal funding bill, staged by the constitutional Court. Photo: Daniel Novakovic/STA

Ljubljana
Ljubljana Mayor Zoran Jankovic (third from left) at a public debate on the recently passed municipal funding bill, staged by the constitutional Court.
Photo: Daniel Novakovic/STA

Ljubljana Finance Minister Andrej Bajuk at a public debate on the recently passed municipal funding bill, staged by the constitutional Court. Photo: Daniel Novakovic/STA

Ljubljana
Finance Minister Andrej Bajuk at a public debate on the recently passed municipal funding bill, staged by the constitutional Court.
Photo: Daniel Novakovic/STA

Ljubljana. "Kozolec", an apartment building in the city's centre that housed a secret location of a joint operation between the Slovenian Intelligence and Security Agency (SOVA) and Germany's security agency BND. Photo: Daniel Novakovic/STA

Ljubljana.
"Kozolec", an apartment building in the city's centre that housed a secret location of a joint operation between the Slovenian Intelligence and Security Agency (SOVA) and Germany's security agency BND.
Photo: Daniel Novakovic/STA

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