If the Judicial Council in the competition for the election of presidents of several basic and higher courts chooses candidates who have already held that position on two occasions, it will be a confirmation that there are no legal obstacles even for the President of the Supreme Court, Vesna Medenica, to remain in the leading position in the judiciary.
Her mandate expires at the end of July, so the election procedure could be opened as early as May. Medenica, who is also a member of SS, has been in that place for 11 years.
According to unofficial information from "Vijesti", she could continue her career in diplomacy because the mandate of the Montenegrin ambassador in Belgrade is coming to an end, but she allegedly did not accept it. Five years ago, she refused a seat in a European judicial institution outside of Montenegro.
The President of the Supreme Court is elected by the Judicial Council on the proposal of the General Session of the Supreme Court. According to the Law on Courts and the Judicial Council, he, like the positions of all presidents of courts, is limited to two mandates.
Vesna Medenica was elected president in 2007, and her legal career is mostly known. She came to that position from the position of the supreme prosecutor, and was elected by the votes of the representatives of the ruling coalition in the Parliament of Montenegro.
She received her current mandate from the Judicial Council, after the adoption of a new law.
"According to the Rules of Procedure of the Judicial Council... after the public advertisement, which has been completed, the process of evaluating the candidates for the ads in question is underway, based on the established criteria. Only after the comprehensive job of evaluating candidates for court presidents, other activities of this procedure follow, evaluation of the work program, interview... Only after the overall procedure has been carried out, the Judicial Council makes decisions on the selection," was the answer of the SS to the question whether the president of the Supreme and her colleagues from lower instances have the right to reapply for the advertisement, given that they have been elected to those positions more than twice.
Before the Judicial Council, the process of evaluating the candidates who responded to the advertisement for the election of several presidents of basic and higher courts is underway.
Only current president Mušika Dujović applied for the Court of Appeals, as well as for the High Court in Podgorica, for which only Boris Savić, the current president, is interested.
Four people applied for the Bjelo Polje High Court after the former first man Tofil Žujović became eligible for retirement, namely the judges of that court Vukomir Bošković, Milan Smolović and Vanja Rakonjac, and lawyer Kasim Dizdarević.
The President of the Commercial Court, Blažo Jovanić, who is in his first term, is again a candidate for that position.
Radović's opponent for the Basic Court is Judge Željka Jovović
Two judges are interested in the position of head of the largest Basic Court in Podgorica - former president Zoran Radović and judge Željka Jovović. Jovović was a member of the Judicial Council in the previous mandate, and she has managerial experience because she was the temporary head of the Basic Court in Cetinje while the proceedings against President Goran Vrbica were being conducted.
Two candidates came forward for the Basic Court of Kotor, the current president Branko Vučković and his colleague, judge Predrag Krstonijević.
Also in Herceg Novi, two people are interested in the court of first instance - the judge of that court, Dijana Dragišić, and her colleague from the Nikšić court, Ivan Perović.
For the presidents of the courts in Plav, Rožaje and Bar Hilmija Sujković, Zahit Camić and Goran Šćepanović.
Judges Šćepanović and Vučković told Fos media earlier that the law allows re-candidacy.
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