{"id":48270,"date":"2023-02-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nssud.sk\/?p=48270"},"modified":"2026-04-22T12:39:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:39:22","slug":"the-election-of-the-mayor-of-vojany-is-null-and-void","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nssud.sk\/en\/the-election-of-the-mayor-of-vojany-is-null-and-void\/","title":{"rendered":"The election of the mayor of Vojany is null and void"},"content":{"rendered":"

By the action brought in the matter of the constitutionality and legality of the elections to the local self-government bodies of the municipality of Vojany, the plaintiff pointed to the results of the elections published by the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic, according to which in the election of the mayor of the municipality of Vojany, the defendant obtained 133 votes and the plaintiff 129 votes, while 394 envelopes were issued and handed in at the election. The number of valid ballot papers for the election of the mayor of the municipality was 364.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On the basis of an assessment of the invalid ballot papers, on which the serial numbers of several candidates were circled by different pens, the court concluded that the ballot papers had been invalidated to the detriment of the plaintiff by the additional circling of the serial numbers of other candidates, which could have occurred either immediately after the voters had voted in the portable ballot box (outside the control of all the members of the electoral commission) or when all the votes cast at the polling station were counted. The number of ballot papers thus ‘cross-checked’ exceeds the difference in the election result between the plaintiff and the defendant.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic also took into account the other circumstances established, namely the appointment of three members of the local election commission by the defendant (the mayor of the municipality) in excess of the law, as a result of which two members of his family and one municipal employee gained access to the ballot papers and the counting of the votes, and the presence of such an additional member during the voting of the voters in the portable ballot box, after which a space was created for the handling of the ballot papers cast outside the control of the election commission.<\/p>\n

No appeal shall lie against the decision of the Panel. The written reasons for the decision shall be published within the statutory period of 30 days from the date of its pronouncement.<\/p>\n

In the election action Peter Vajda c\/a \u0160tefan Czinke, the Panel No. 14 of the Supreme Administrative Court was composed of: the President of the Panel JUDr. Mari\u00e1n Tren\u010dan (Judge-rapporteur) and the members of the Panel JUDr. Katar\u00edna Cang\u00e1rov\u00e1, PhD., LL.M., JUDr. Petra Pr\u00edbelsk\u00e1, PhD., JUDr. Mari\u00e1n Fe\u010d\u00edk, Prof. JUDr. Peter Pot\u00e1sch, PhD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Najvy\u0161\u0161\u00ed spr\u00e1vny s\u00fad Slovenskej republiky kon\u0161tatoval, \u017ee vykonan\u00fdm dokazovan\u00edm, najm\u00e4 nahliadnut\u00edm do volebnej dokument\u00e1cie a vyhodnoten\u00edm neplatn\u00fdch hlasovac\u00edch l\u00edstkov, bolo preuk\u00e1zan\u00e9, \u017ee do\u0161lo k manipul\u00e1cii volebn\u00fdch v\u00fdsledkov vo forme zneplatnenia hlasovac\u00edch l\u00edstkov v neprospech \u017ealobcu. Udialo sa tak v \u010dase medzi odovzdan\u00edm hlasovac\u00edch l\u00edstkov, ich spo\u010d\u00edtan\u00edm a vyhotoven\u00edm z\u00e1pisnice o v\u00fdsledku volieb, teda v dobe, po\u010das ktorej mali \u00fapln\u00fa kontrolu nad odovzdan\u00fdmi hlasovac\u00edmi l\u00edstkami \u010dlenovia miestnej volebnej komisie (sp. zn. 14 Svp 6\/2022).<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":35212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","category-election-agenda"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nssud.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nssud.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nssud.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nssud.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nssud.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48270"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.nssud.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56362,"href":"https:\/\/www.nssud.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48270\/revisions\/56362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nssud.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nssud.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nssud.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nssud.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}