I cancellati is the name used in the media, for a group of people in Slovenia and after the country's independence in 1991 were without legal status.
In 1991, immediately after the declaration of independence by Slovenia, the approximately 200,000 residents of Slovenia who had citizenship of other republics of former Yugoslavia (the "citizenship of the Republic" was a purely formal status, which many did not know existed since not included no legal consequence) was granted the possibility to obtain, through a simple application, the nationality of the new independent state. For those who have chosen not to avail themselves of this possibility, the law required to register as "foreign" (a term denoting legal permanent residents without citizenship). 170,000 presented the application, obtaining citizenship before the elections in 1992. Some thousands chose the second option. All that, contrary to provisioni legal, not recorded as "foreigners" were removed from the registry Permanent Residence in February 1992, losing all social rights, civil and political. This action mold purely administrative (and thus without any possibility of appeal) and that without any legal basis, struck, the second unofficial estimates, around 18,000 people, including some actual had left the country, while others were simply unaware of Providing legal that required them to confirm their status through a new application.
In 1999 the Constitutional Court dicharò the act of "erasing" illegal and unconstitutional, annulando its legal consequences. In the same year, the Slovenian Parliament promulgated a law that offered the "erased" the opportunity to regain the residence, but only to those who lived permanently in Slovenian territory. The Court Constituzionale abrogò this law as another attempt in the same direction. In 2003 the Court declared unconstitutional Providing legal 1992 that required residents with Slovenian citizenship of other Yugoslav republics of iterare demand to obtain the status of "alien", and ordered the return of the status of residents at all "erased" retroactive function (regardless of whether they actually did not live in Slovenia after 1992). Many lawyers (among other things some former members of the Constitutional Court and authors of the Constitution) harshly criticized this decision, it followed a large and lasting controversy, in which the government gradually took center positions taken of the Constitutional Court, while opposition center continued to criticarle. In February 2004, the parliamentary majority a law promulgated in accordance with the decision of the Court (which provided for the retroactive only for those who were already in possession of residence); two months later, however, this law (called "Law on technical erased" ) was annulled by a referendum (supported by the center). This referendum was strongly contested by some institutions of the European Union.
In 2007 the number of the "erased" is imprecisabile, the group is fragmented into different legal categories: some have regained residency and citizenship, some only residence, some were expelled, many of them living in Slovenia illegally. According to some estimates are still 6,000 those without legal status, while many of those who managed to get the right to permanent residency had to pay heavily the consequences of years of irregularities. The issue was brought before the European Commission, but said he does not have jurisdiction. Some of the deleted made a collective appeal to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, claiming that "The cancellation is a European problem, because it violates fundamental human rights provided by the EU Convention."
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