Lindsay Vonn of our government

Politics is like skiing - mostly you go where you want, and sometimes where the devil takes you.

The president of the Supreme Court, Vesna Medenica, even if she is a good skier, would have to understand that this time the devil took it away.

The European Commission (EC), in its new working document on the situation in chapters 23 and 24, addressed the judiciary with a small book, the same one it wrote in the previous report from November 2019 to the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (ASK) and Sreten Radonjić. Radonjić understood the message and got up from the armchair of the director of ASK.

In addition to the allegation that "the judiciary and the prosecutor's office are still seen as vulnerable to political interference", the Commission's working document is reminiscent of a scenario from an episode of Surrealist - the government cuts the salaries of 50 judges and 134 top-ranking prosecutors by 59 percent for three months as part of measures due to the epidemic corona virus, Desanka Lopičić was elected as the "president" of the Constitutional Court even though the legislative framework does not recognize that category, the Prosecutor's Council appreciates that all 53 prosecutors it tested are distinguished...

And then seriously, more explicitly than what was written in the previous working document from November 2019:

"Between 2019 and the beginning of 2020, the Judicial Council reappointed (in total) seven court presidents, including the President of the Supreme Court for at least a third term. This raises concerns about the way the Judicial Council interprets the spirit and letter of the basic constitutional and legal framework, which limits such appointments to a maximum of two terms, in order to prevent excessive concentration of power within the judiciary".

Since December 2007, when she was first elected president of the Supreme Court, Medenica has made some positive changes in the judiciary, such as increasing efficiency, improving the quality of working conditions, as well as significantly higher salaries for judges.

At the same time, he is one of the main culprits due to distrust in the judiciary. When politics interferes in the affairs of justice, then injustice enters the scene. And over time there was more and more politics while Medenica was skiing.

In such judicial power, it enjoys undisputed authority. For those on whose scales politics and justice are on the same level, Medenica is the best skier in the white sport. Lindsay Vonn of our government.

Long careers are always accompanied by ups and downs, minor or major injuries. The public remembers Lindsey Vaughn for her nude photos, just as Medenica will be remembered for her principled, albeit non-binding, legal position - that, unlike the practice so far, in court practice, decisions made by the parliament, which are concern the election and removal of officials, even if they are illegal.

Lindsay Vonn retired after several serious injuries. The President of the Supreme Court and the President of the Skiing Association of Montenegro would have to understand that the time for her withdrawal has come after such serious warnings from Brussels.

When she was elected for the third term, Medenica said that she was also motivated by the challenges of Chapters 23 and 24 in Montenegro's negotiations with the EU. Now that challenge comes down to retiring from office without harming DPS. That is why she will not step down before the parliamentary elections planned for September. Just so that the DPS, who appointed him to that position, would not thereby show weakness.

But Montenegro still has bigger problems than Medenica itself.

These are, first of all, those 18 judges of the Supreme Court who supported her candidacy, despite the fact that in Article 124 of the Constitution of Montenegro, paragraph 5, it is written "the same person can be elected president of the Supreme Court no more than twice."

Among them were those judges whose scales had long been correctly calibrated and the sword properly held.

However, the blame for the blockade in negotiations with the EU and, more importantly, for this state of affairs in the judiciary, should be further individualized.

These are the ones who voted for the election of Medenica and the remaining six court presidents at the Judicial Council, who insulted the Montenegrin public's reason, convincing it that 3 are actually 2.

By prof. Mladen Vukčević, who resigned from the position of president of the Judicial Council after the first EC working document, are the Minister of Justice Zoran Pažin, judges Rada Kovačević, Ana Perović Vojinović, Verica Sekulić, Dragan Babović, and those who were elected from the ranks of distinguished lawyers, Dobrica Šljivančanin, Loro Markić and Vesna Simović-Zvicer.

All of them were dangerously sliding off the track. That is why, after Medenica, they should also stop blocking the road to the EU and a truly independent judiciary for the sake of the interests of the ruling party. If the country is their first priority, how can they swear so often.