A new public competition for the election of the executive director of the company "Railway Transport of Montenegro" (ŽPCG) was announced on September 30, and will last until October 14. The executive director of this state-owned company is elected for a period of four years.
This is the second competition, after the first one, which lasted from mid-August to the 31st of that month, was cancelled. The process of electing a new director of this company was officially terminated on September 26, after, as the Ministry of Transport clarified at the time, the intervention of the head of that department, the minister Maje Vukićević.
At that time, the department stated that the reason for canceling the competition was the fact that the appointment commission formed in the ŽPCG acted illegally when reviewing the candidate's documentation.
"Vijesti" asked the Board of Directors of ŽPCG about these irregularities, i.e. why the competition was canceled, whether the commission acted illegally and how, who were its members, whether there was selective treatment of candidates, why the process was not suspended even before the reaction of the Department of Transport ...
The board of directors in which they are Željko Miladinović, Dejan Konatar, Pavle Popović, Vladimir Đurišić and the president of that body Tripko Draganić, did not answer the questions, but the state ŽPCG clarified that commenting on this process would endanger a new competition.
"Given that the public tender was announced again on September 30 and is ongoing, we believe that any comment on the process would contribute to jeopardizing it. Also, we believe that commenting on candidate applications by first and last name would be redundant and unprofessional. All information about the applications, as well as the decision of the Board of Directors on the selection and appointment of the executive director, will be publicly and transparently available after the end of the competition and the selection of the executive director", said the company.
Last week, the Ministry of Transport announced that Vukićević requested the annulment of the competition, after it was established that the commission acted selectively, that is, that it requested supplemental documentation from only some candidates. Of the seven applications received, they said, two were in order while five had deficiencies.
They pointed out that the commission included Đurišić and two lawyers from ŽPCG, one of whom dissented and believed that the competition should either be canceled or all candidates should be considered equally, and she also pointed to the problematic documentation of one of the applicants and the selectiveness of the procedure.
Vukićević also shared that position, they claim, so the Board canceled the competition with three votes. Miladinović, Đurišić and Popović were in favor of canceling the competition, while Draganić and Konatar voted against that decision.
"The nominations committee only asked three candidates to complete the documentation, while the other two were not invited to complete the documentation. The minister believed that this selective action of the commission opens up room for doubt in the final decision, and the state secretary conveyed this position to the board of directors. Marijana Stanić who attended the session. The Ministry will not support any selective action either in ŽPCG, or in any other state enterprise under our jurisdiction. This government must show that it is different from the previous ones, and we must stop the bad practices that were inherited from the previous time," said Minister Vukićević's cabinet at the time.
On August 9, the board of directors appointed an acting executive director Slavica Pavićević, who until then was the director of the economic sector in that company.
She was appointed after the Board dismissed the previous director on the same day Ilinka Pavićević, due to, as reported, the analysis of her work, in which irregularities were found.
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