The deputy primary prosecutor in Podgorica, Vukas Radonjić, dismissed the criminal charges against the former president of the State Election Commission, Blaž Šaranović, due to unconscionable work in the office, i.e. announcing the results of the presidential elections without a quorum at the session.
Former presidential candidate Mladen Bojanić filed a complaint with the Prosecutor's Office against Saranović and three other people, after the SEC rejected his objection to the regularity of the presidential elections, at a session where there was no quorum.
In the complaint submitted to the SEC, Bojanić pointed out that there is numerous evidence of numerous abuses on the day of the election, which unequivocally confirms that DPS candidate Milo Đukanović had a significant "institutional advantage", as stated in the preliminary report of the OSCE Monitoring Mission/ ODIHR, that is, that he permanently misused state resources during his election campaign.
Bojanić confirmed that the prosecutor dismissed the report with the explanation that he was not harmed.
"They confirmed that the session of the SEC was illegal, but even if it had been established that it was legal - the epilogue would have been the same," Bojanić, who testified at the Basic State Prosecutor's Office at the end of June, told "Vijesta".
Šaranović and SEC members Nataša Pešić, Aleksandar Jovićević and Mersudin Dautović were under investigation for the session where the results of the presidential elections were announced.
Commenting on the prosecutor's decision, Bojanic said that their explanation was in the style of: "The murderer should not be condemned because he was killed, certainly dead".
At the end of April 2018, Bojanić submitted a report to the Supreme State Prosecutor's Office, in which he proposed to "stop Šaranović and his five accomplices in the commission of the crime." At that time, he assessed that Saranović and his accomplices persisted in committing a criminal act, which threatened the legal order, but also the legal and political situation in Montenegro.
The State Election Commission, and then the Constitutional Court, rejected his complaints about the irregularity of the presidential elections, in which the candidate of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) Milo Đukanović was elected.
After the SEC, without the presence of members from the opposition, rejected the objection to the regularity of the election process, Bojanić warned in the application that "Šaranović and his accomplices make the decision to reject the objection even though they do not have a quorum for such decisions and are continuously acting illegally".
He also pointed out that it is not possible to establish or recognize an authority that does not arise from the freely expressed will of the citizens in democratic elections, in accordance with the law.
Šaranović later announced that the complaint was rejected because, in accordance with legal provisions, it can only be submitted to the State Election Commission against the decisions of the municipal election commissions, and the municipal election commissions did not decide on the specific complaint.
After the Constitutional Court rejected his appeal, Bojanic filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights for discrimination, violation of the right to a fair trial and free elections.
He asked for 100.000 euros for fair satisfaction, after the Constitutional Court rejected the constitutional appeal that requested the annulment of the election results due to the misuse of state resources by the DPS presidential candidate Milo Đukanović and the controversial decision of the SEC.
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