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Croatian Constitutional Court: The Referendum on the Cyrillic Script by Endre Dudás is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
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The Constitutional Act on the Rights of National Minorities states that 'Equality in the official use of a minority language and script shall be exercised in the territory of a local selfgovernment unit in which the members of a national minority compose a minimum of one third of the population.' Upon introducing the bilingualism (Croatian-Serbian) in Vukovar, a referendum was requested to raise the threshold of one third to at least a half. The Constitutional Court, however, rejected the referendum initiative, deeming the referendum question unconstitutional because it is contrary to the fundamentals of the Constitution of the Republic of Croatia. ## I. Facts of the Case In November 2013, Citizens' initiative 'Headquarters for defense of Croatian Vukovar' (Stožer za obranu hrvatskog Vukovara) started collecting signatures aiming to change the Constitutional Act on the Rights of National Minorities 1 provisions regarding the official use of the minority language in the territory of a self-government unit. Pursuant to the disputed provisions the official use of the minority language in the territory of a selfgovernment unit is possible if i) the members of a national minority make a
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- Author
- Endre Dudás
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences