“The ruling has been sent via post and fax to the complaint’s representative (Matoz Law Firm). The ruling will also be delivered to the Supreme, Higher and District Court. The Constitutional Court hasn’t received delivery receipts for the notices of judgement yet. Therefore, from the court’s point of view the ruling is not yet public,” responded the Constitutional Court to MMC’s enquiry.

If it turns out that the constitutional judges have rejected Janša’s appeal and directed him to the Supreme Court, Janša will start serving his two-year prison sentence in Dob prison on Friday.

Unofficial result 6:3 for appeal rejection
According to unofficial information the current result of judge vote is 6:3 in favour of rejecting Janša’s constitutional appeal, since he hasn’t resorted to all available legal means yet, i.e. all options of challenging the verdict in the regular court system. The ruling could still change if any of the constitutional judges asked for the voting to the repeated, but this rarely happens. Three constitutional judges, Zobec. Petrič and Deisinger, are said to have finished writing their separate opinions today, since they disagree with the majority opinion.

Janša already filed an appeal
Through his counsel Franci Matoz, Janez Janša has already filed a request for the protection of legality at the Supreme Court. Yet, it is almost certain that the request will have no influence in terms of due start of the prison sentence.

Janša published the prison summons himself on Twitter. The Supreme Court doesn’t have sufficient time to uphold the due start of the prison sentence, i.e. before Friday. Judges of the Supreme Court can later opt to temporarily suspend Janša’s serving of the prison sentence until reaching their final decision. This past weekend Janša emphasized he would not “ask for anything” himself as he had been sentenced without evidence.

Jolanda Lebar, Tanja Starič in T.H.; translated by K. Z.