Constitutional Court to Deal with Law on 2024 State Budget (2)

Kosice, April 24 (TASR) - The Constitutional Court will examine the constitutionality of the law on this year's state budget. The court at its session on Wednesday accepted for further proceedings a motion filed by a group of opposition MPs who believe that the adopted law is at odds with the Slovak Constitution and the constitutional law on budgetary responsibility. However, the court did not comply with their proposal to suspend the effect of the law. The MPs in their motion objected, among other things, to serious procedural flaws while adopting the law in question. "The contested law is the result of the arbitrary action by the legislator, who, by grossly ignoring the rules of the legislative procedure, seriously violated the constitutional principles of a democratic state, legality, the prohibition of arbitrariness and the protection of free competition of political forces in a democratic society and the resulting constitutional rights of the parliamentary opposition, thereby also causing a violation of the constitutional principle of long-term sustainability of performance and budgetary responsibility," stated the MPs. After the law's approval, the Budgetary Responsibility Council pointed to the fact that without additional changes, the state budget exceeds spending limits and significantly worsens the long-term sustainability of public finances. President Zuzana Caputova had reservations on the adopted law, too. ko/mcs