Slovenia: Ethics and Good Governance

In any state at all regulated, by accepting a term of office, a government also undertakes to respect those basic principles on which the legal and social order of the state is founded. So, for example, in Slovenia, the president of the government and ministers, on election to the National Assembly, swear that they will respect the Constitution and the law and that they will behave in accordance with the well‐being of all citizens of Slovenia. With this apparently symbolic statement, a minister binds not only himself but the state administration as a whole.