Slovenia Country Report

Abstract

The referendum as a means of decision-making was present in various forms in the Slovene constitutional order even when Slovenia was still a part of communist Yugoslavia, yet neither a constitutional nor a legislative referendum were ever carried out in practice (referendums were held only at the local level and in "working" and other organisations). Given this total absence of referendum practice in the legislative field and the negative experience of referendums from the past, it is clear that a referendum democracy has yet to establish itself in Slovenia