Judge of the Supreme Court Ana Vuković "Vijesti" has learned from several sources that it is the only one so far to submit a candidacy for the position of president of the umbrella judicial institution.
Vuković's candidacy came on the last day of the public announcement, which closed yesterday at 15 p.m.
The Judicial Council is also obliged to wait until Monday, April 22 of this year, and check whether someone may have sent a candidacy by mail, and only then to close the public advertisement.
Since the beginning of 2021, after Vesna Medenica left office, this is the 8th public advertisement that the Judicial Council has announced to fill the most important position in the judicial system.
The European Commission recently gave the Judicial Council a deadline until April 24 to complete one of the key temporary benchmarks - the election of the President of the Supreme Court.
In order to fulfill that standard, which is high on the list for obtaining IBAR in June this year, the goodwill of the judges of the Supreme Court will be needed to submit a proposal to the Judicial Council for a position in the judiciary at the General Session.
Since the beginning of 2021, after Vesna Medenica left office, this is the 8th public advertisement that the Judicial Council has announced to fill the most important position in the judicial system
President of the Judicial Council Radoje Korac at a recent press conference, he expressed his expectation that the Supreme Court would finally determine the proposal for the Judicial Council.
"From the EC, we have a date when we should elect the president of the Supreme Court, we are not really sure that this will happen even now at the General Session of the Supreme Court. We do our job and no ad is left unpublished immediately. We will by no means suggest to the court how it votes. It would be desirable for them to vote however they want," Korac said.
His presentation was followed up by a member of the SS Miodrag Ilicković, who, when asked by "Vijesti" whether the appeal of the Judicial Council to the judges of the Supreme Court might be a form of pressure during the secret election process, clarified that the acting situation has been going on for a long time and that "it is incomprehensible to him that 17 judges of the Supreme Court cannot to suggest a colleague".
"We suffer complaints from the EU, the Venice Commission, and now everyone's only imperative is to elect the president of the Supreme Court. We do not suggest any procedure other than the existing one", said Ilicković.
The last ad failed on March 15 of this year when candidates Ana Vuković and the judge of the Supreme Court did not receive the two-thirds support of their colleagues in the Supreme Court. Ranko Vukić.
At that time, Judge Vuković needed only two votes to reach the Judicial Council, and that would probably not have happened if, after a secret process, there were not as many as five invalid ballots in the ballot box.
Vuković had responded to the SS ad before, but in that circle she only had the support of two colleagues at the General Session.
Vuković started her career as an intern in the Government in 1991, and she opened her judicial career in 1993 as an intern in the Basic Court in Podgorica, where she was later elected as a judge of that court.
In 2009, she was elected as a judge of the High Court in Podgorica, and in 2011 she moved to the Special Department.
During 2021, she will advance to the Court of Appeal, and at the end of February of this year, she was elected as a judge of the Supreme Court of Montenegro.
In the Work Program submitted by Vuković during her last candidacy, she stated, among other things:
"I would devote special attention, which is inevitably imposed by the current increase in the number of criminal offenses in the field of organized crime and corruption, to these procedures and to the creation of conditions for their more efficient resolution. These cases would have priority, with clearly defined measures and deadlines that maintain the urgency of action, whereby, in addition to all other goals, the results of all efforts to establish the rule of law would certainly have to be clearly visible," stated Vuković.
In addition to numerous problems and the poor state of the judiciary, there is a particular problem in the Specialized Department of the High Court in Podgorica, where there have been almost no final verdicts for high corruption and organized crime for years.
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