If Zdravko Krivokapić's cabinet is elected in December, the prime minister and members of the current government, especially career officials who have changed portfolios in the executive branch for years, will mostly be left to their own knowledge, the connections they have acquired, and perhaps the labor market.
The parties that delegated them from office to office should not have the political power to send them back to official positions, where the party card of the ruling parties was more important than the diploma and knowledge.
Most of the members of Prime Minister Duško Marković's cabinet are, as written in their biographies, lawyers, economists and political scientists.
"Vijesti" asked all the members of the Government what they will do after their mandate ends, but few of them answered even though the questions were sent five days ago.
Those who answered stated that they would mostly return to, as they said, their primary professions, while two ministers explained that they would be in the parliamentary benches.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Srđan Darmanović will continue his work engagement as a regular professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences, as the Ministry's PR department told "Vijesta".
Darmanović entered Duško Marković's cabinet as a non-party person after the parliamentary elections in 2016, and during his mandate in the executive branch he also taught at the FPN, which is also reminded in the official response of the MFA.
As a minister, he is also a member of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe, he was an ambassador, the founder of the NGO Cedem, and this was his second job in the government - after the ambassadorship.
Minister of Internal Affairs Mevludin Nuhodžić, who is also a high-ranking official of the Democratic Party of Socialists, will continue his work in the legislative branch, as written in the response of the MUP Public Relations Team.
Nuhodžić, as well as the current prime minister and several of their colleagues from DPS, are currently in positions in the technical government, but they have not submitted their resignations to the parliamentary seats where they were elected from that party list.
The Prime Minister informed the Assembly and the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption that they have frozen those positions, which would mean that they are avoiding a conflict of interest because the two functions are incompatible.
The agency did not comment on this, while the President of the Parliament Aleksa Bečić (Democrats) stated in his reply to Duško Marković that they are not competent.
In Nuhodžić's biography, it is written that he has been involved in politics since 1984, he was a member of parliament, minister without portfolio, director of the government's Property Directorate (now the Administration), which in the meantime became an independent body. He completed defense and protection at the Faculty of Political Sciences and the Faculty of Law.
As told to the "News", the former captain of the water polo national team, Nikola Janović, who was the Minister of Sports and Youth for the previous four years, will also follow in his footsteps.
It was his first public function as a member of the DPS. In his biography it is written that he graduated from the Maritime Faculty.
Minister for Human and Minority Rights Mehmed Zenka told "Vijesta" that in addition to the position of president of the Democratic Union of Albanians (DUA) and political activity, he has other obligations awaiting him.
"To tell you the truth, I have been working since I was 12 years old and I have changed several professions for which I have many fond memories... All in all, there will always be work, especially for me who likes the challenges that life imposes," said Zenka. .
He reminded that DUA is in power in Ulcinj, Tuzi and Gusinj and that in the last six years they have carried out a series of reforms within their party structures, but that there is still a lot to be done in order to achieve the desired results:
"First of all, I'm thinking of young staff, which... within our structures are at an enviable level. I have a great responsibility in terms of giving space for them to stand out".
Zenka worked as deputy director in the Public Enterprise for Breeding and Protection of Game, and as executive director of that company. He held the position of vice president of the Municipality of Ulcinj and director of the public company "Communal Activities" in Ulcinj. From 2009 to 2012, he was a member of the Parliament of Montenegro. He also graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences.
The cabinet of the outgoing prime minister did not answer where he will continue his work engagement.
Marković, who is also the vice-president of the Democratic Party of Socialists, is a law graduate.
He started his career in the legal service of the "Brskovo" mine in Mojkovac in 1983, after that he was secretary and president of the Mojkovac Municipality Assembly, then Secretary General of the Government, assistant to the Minister of Internal Affairs, director of the National Security Agency, deputy prime minister and minister of justice.
His successor in the Ministry of Justice, Zoran Pažin, also graduated from the Faculty of Law.
He was an associate, judge and president of the Basic Court in Podgorica, then the representative of Montenegro before the European Court of Human Rights. By entering the executive power and the DPS after the 2016 elections, he became deputy prime minister and member of the Council for the Rule of Law, as well as various bodies and commissions of the executive power...
Second Deputy Prime Minister for Regional Development Rafet Husović graduated from the Faculty of Science and Mathematics in Pristina.
He is the president of the Bosniak Party of Montenegro, and before his current position, he was a minister without portfolio for two mandates.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Milutin Simović is probably the future president of Nikšić Municipality.
He was a minister, deputy, vice-president of the Parliament of Montenegro on several occasions...
Simović is also a high-ranking DPS official, and his party biography states that he began his career in 1986 as a senior researcher at the Agricultural Institute's Institute for Crop and Vegetable Production.
The current Minister of Defense, Predrag Bošković, has a master's degree in economics.
He was a lecturer at the Faculty of Economics in Podgorica, a member of the Parliament of Montenegro, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia and Montenegro, Minister of Economy, Minister of Labor and Social Welfare, Minister of Education in the Government of Montenegro and President of the Board of Directors of the Coal Mine.
In his biography on the MoD website, it is written that he was the head of the Budućnost Women's Handball Club.
Bošković is also a high official of DPS.
Minister of Education Damir Šehović (Social Democrats) is also an economist.
Since 2005, he has been employed at the Faculty of Economics in Podgorica, he was the acting secretary of the Ministry of Finance, a member of parliament in several mandates...
Law: Two years to watch what they do
The Law on the Prevention of Corruption stipulates that a public official may not, as stated, work for two years with a company, entrepreneur or international or other organization that, based on the decisions of the authority in which he held office, realizes a benefit.
During the same period, he may not be a representative of an organization that had a contractual or business relationship with the government in front of the authority where he held a public function. Nor can he, according to the law, "use, for the purpose of gaining benefit for himself or another or for the purpose of causing harm to another, the knowledge and information obtained in the performance of a public function, unless this knowledge and information is available to the public".
The Minister of Economy completed the ETF, the Minister of Culture completed Management
Minister of Economy Dragica Sekulić (DPS) graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. She worked as an advisor in the Ministry of Economy and was assistant to the Minister of Economy...
Minister of Public Administration Suzana Pribilović (DPS) is a graduate lawyer, who during her career worked in the Secretariat for Parliamentary Affairs, the Secretariat for Economy and Finance and the Cabinet of the President of the Municipality of Budva, was a judge of the Basic Court in Kotor, vice-president of the Municipality of Budva, practiced law. .
Minister of Culture Aleksandar Bogdanović (DPS) graduated from the Faculty of Management, he started his career in the Ministry of Economy as an advisor to the minister and a spokesperson.
Then he was an adviser to the President of Montenegro, and in 2009 he became a deputy. As a member of the DPS, he was the mayor of Cetinje, and then he became the minister of culture in Marković's cabinet.
The current Minister of Transport Osman Nurković (Bosniak Party) is also an economist, he was secretary in the Municipality of Rožaje, director of economic, banking and insurance companies, assistant director of the Property Administration of Montenegro, and executive director of Monteput.
Fees of at least 1500 euros per year
On the basis of the Law on Salaries and Other Remuneration of State and Public Officials, ministers, prime minister and vice-presidents can receive compensation in the amount of the salary they had in the month before the termination of office for the next year.
The condition for this is that the Administrative Committee of the Assembly, headed by Milun Zogović (DF), gives its consent.
On the Government's website, in the General Secretariat section, it is written that the Prime Minister received a gross salary of 3.039 euros for September, Rafet Husović 2,500 euros, Zoran Pažin 2,510 euros, and Milutin Simović 2.700 euros.
On the websites of the ministries, earnings are not published on a monthly basis, and in the assets record of the ASK for last year it is stated that Predrag Bošković received an average of 1,600 euros per month, Aleksandar Bogdanović 1,500 euros, and the minister without a portfolio 1,600 euros.
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