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This paper explores the transitory imaginaries in the semi-permanent constitutional polytransition in the Central and Eastern European region. It is centered on the novel concept of transitory imaginaries. This concept serves as a tool for combined socio-legal, comparative, and semiotic approach to constitutional transitions. The paper demonstrates the deep conceptual and pragmatic links between constitutional transitology, memory politics, and identity politics. It exposes the role of the forms of symbolic-imaginary constitutionalism for shaping and understanding of constitutional transitions and polytransitions. The paper shows the importance of constitutional imagination for collective symbolic-imaginary sublimation of constitutional transition and the bridging role of constitutional imaginaries that are stretched between the constitutional past, the constitutional present, and the constitutional future. In that regard, the paper explores the different ways for imagining the constitutional past and constitutional future and offers an outline of the main imaginaries in serving that purpose. More precisely, the paper analyses nationalist transitory imaginaries, universalist transitory imaginaries, and prospective transitional imaginaries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the concept of constitutional imaginaries in Central and Eastern Europe, emphasizing the importance of emotions, visuals, and collective imaginaries in shaping constitutional meaning. It explores the interplay between reason, emotions, and imagination in constitutionalism, highlighting the complexity of the constitutional process. The special issue aims to offer a multilayered narrative on constitutional transitions in the region, providing alternative perspectives on constitutional history through symbolic-imaginary explanations. The papers in the issue delve into the role of constitutional imaginaries in shaping constitutional traditions, transitions, and the overall process of modernization, anti-modernization, and post-modernization in the region. [Extracted from the article]