Tomorrow, the Parliamentary Constitutional Committee will determine the list of registered candidates for the election of five judges of the Constitutional Court.
The President of Montenegro, Filip Vujanović, previously announced a public call for the election of two judges of the Constitutional Court.
The Constitutional Court has seven members, who are elected and dismissed by the Parliament of Montenegro. The mandate of judges is 12 years.
Candidates for judges must be at least 40 years old and have 15 years of work experience in the legal profession.
The Constitutional Law for the Implementation of the Constitution provides for the re-election of all judges of the Constitutional Court. They will be elected in the parliament with a two-thirds majority, that is, with a possible three-fifths support in the second round of voting.
Attorney Predrag Mugoša submitted an initiative for the review of the constitutionality of the Law on the Constitutional Court of Montenegro due to, as stated, vagueness regarding the termination of the mandate, that is, the legal position of the current judges of that court.
Judge rapporteur in this case, Miodrag Latković, proposed that the Constitutional Court initiate a procedure to evaluate the constitutionality of the disputed law and, as he stated in the decision, order the Assembly and the President of Montenegro to stop the election of new judges until the final decision of the Constitutional Court.
The initiative to evaluate the constitutionality of the provisions of the Constitutional Law for the Implementation of Amendments to the Constitution and the Law on the Constitutional Court, which regulates the election of judges of that court, was also submitted by the Protector of Human Rights and Freedoms, Šućko Baković.
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