"[1] This was the first time that a highest national court legally evaluated the symbolism of Josip Broz Tito's name.
The proposal was put forward by Ljubljana mayor Zoran Janković and city councillor Peter Božič.
A group of citizens, some of them former victims and political prisoners of the communist regime, filed an application with the Constitutional Court of Slovenia, asking it to find the naming of the street unconstitutional.
The court stressed that the name Tito symbolizes the postwar communist regime, marked by extensive and serious violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms, particularly in the decade immediately after the Second World War.
Naming a street after Josip Broz Tito in Ljubljana was not maintained over from the previous regime, in which case it would be only a part of history today.
Judges Korpic-Horvat and Klampfer wrote in their concurring opinion that the reasoning of the majority decision was unbalanced in excessively criticizing Tito and the Communism.