Slovakia’s Constitutional Court has suspended the effect of a law abolishing the Office for the Protection of Whistleblowers, the court announced on 17 December.
The law, adopted on 9 December 2025 – International Anti-Corruption Day – seeks to dissolve the independent office and replace it with a new body yet to be established: the Office for the Protection of Victims of Crime and Whistleblowers.
The court acted after a complaint was filed by 63 opposition MPs on 10 December, supported by Public Defender of Rights Róbert Dobrovodský.
“We consider today’s decision a significant milestone in the protection of the rule of law in Slovakia,” the whistleblower office said.
In its published 20-page decision, the Constitutional Court said it found no grounds to reject, even in part, the complaint filed by opposition MPs and the ombudsman, concluding that it raises relevant arguments about the possible unconstitutionality of the law abolishing the whistleblower office.
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