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Most-Hardened Criminals Still Banned from Casting Votes in Elections
Tuesday 09 February 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, February 9 (TASR) - Incarcerated persons save the ones convicted for extremely serious crimes will be allowed to cast their votes in parliamentary and europarliamentary elections as of March 2010 due to the Act on Elections amendment passed by the Slovak Parliament on Tuesday.
The amendment as such is the aftermath of Constitutional Court verdict reached in February 2009 that declared the legislation denying convicts the right to vote unconstitutional.
According to the Constitutional Court, it's unacceptable to deny any citizen his or her democratic franchise without a serious public interest being at stake. Based on this verdict, prisoners already took part in elections to the European Parliament held in June 2009.
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