Judicial Council selected third candidate for the election of a Judge to the European Court of Human Rights for Slovak Republic

The Judicial Council of the Slovak Republic selected a third candidate for election as judge of the European Court of Human Rights for the Slovak Republic. 

On December 16, 2025 at its final session of the year, the Judicial Council of the Slovak Republic selected a third candidate for election as judge of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) for the Slovak Republic. 

The Council´s December session thus resulted in selecting the final nominee for the position of judge to the European Court of Human Rights for the Slovak Republic. Katarína Roskoványi was chosen as the third candidate, joining the two candidates – Ondrej Laciak and Branislav Jablonka, elected at the Council´s June session. The list of the three candidates will be submitted to the Government of the Slovak Republic for approval.  

A member of the Judicial Council, Dana Jelinková Dudzíková, also applied for the position. She was nominated by the President of the Judicial Council of the Slovak Republic, Marcela Kosová, by Judicial Council member Ľuboš Kunay, and by the Slovak Association of Judges. Katarína Roskoványi was nominated by Judicial Council member Peter Šamko. 

The European Court of Human Rights is an international judicial body whose judges are nominated by the individual member states of the Council of Europe. Within this system, the Slovak Republic represented by the Government of the Slovak Republic, is obliged to submit a list of three candidates, after which the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe elects one of them. The elected candidate will represent the Slovak Republic at the European Court of Human Rights for the next term of office.