Area: Javna uprava
Competent authority: MNZ
EZU URL: .nan
Initiative ID: 248
Initiative accepted and completed: '2013-12-13'
Initiative classified in EZU: .nan
Initiative forwarded in response: '2013-12-02'
Initiative published: '2013-12-02'
Initiative submitted: '2013-11-18'
Response from the competent authority: 'Answer from the Ministry of the Interior:
  On the basis of Article 26, paragraph 1, and Article 104, paragraph 2, of the Local
  Elections Act (Official Gazette of the RS, No.94/07 - official consolidated text,
  45/08), the President of the National Assembly of the RS calls regular elections
  to municipal councils and regular elections of mayors. The municipal election commissions
  and the National Election Commission are responsible for the conduct of the elections.
  Alternatively, on the same day, the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia
  or an individual municipality with less than 20,000 inhabitants (as you suggest)
  could call a consultative referendum on the basis of the Act on Referendum and Popular
  Initiative. As this would not be a referendum in the sense of the third paragraph
  of Article 139 of the Constitution of the Republic of Slovenia (Official Gazette
  of the Republic of Slovenia No. 33/1991, 42/1997, 66/2000, 24/2003, 69/2004, 68/2006
  and 47/2013), it would in all likelihood be difficult to arrive at a desired result
  and understanding of the different interests in the merging of municipalities on
  the basis of the results.'
Text file: 248.txt
Title: Number of municipalities
URL: https://www.stopbirokraciji.gov.si/pobuda/?st=248
