A ceremonial parliamentary session should commemorate the 25th anniversary of Slovakia's Constitution on Friday, with all living presidents of the independent state and parliamentary chairs being invited, the Parliament communication department chief Zuzana Čižmáriková told TASR on Wednesday.
The Slovak Constitution was adopted on 1 September 1992 and entered into force one month later, still during the existence of the Czechoslovak federation. An independent Slovak Republic was established only on 1 January 1993. According to one of the authors of the Constitution's text, Ľubomír Fogaš, its preparation took place during an extraordinary hectic period, while the future of both the Czech and Slovak republics was still being negotiated. After the Velvet Revolution of 1989, there were as many as nine versions of the Constitution.
At the time of the Constitution's adoption in 1992, the idea that the Czech and Slovak Republics could once more reunite on the basis of a state treaty in the future still resonated among the members of the Slovak National Council.
"However, this idea was absolutely unrealistic. And even though the emergence of the Czech and Slovak Republics did not prevent us from returning to this idea, there was no interest on either side to do so," explained in a discussion for TABLET.TV one of the authors of the Slovak Constitution, Ľubomír Fogaš.
