Zoran Mikić, executive director of the Civic Movement URA, announced today that the movement has filed two appeals to the Constitutional Court due to what he called "unfounded Decisions of the State Election Commission (SEC) which cover up the looting of the elections in Mojkovac".
"The civil movement URA today, respecting the legal deadlines, electronically submitted two appeals to the Constitutional Court of Montenegro against the decisions of the State Election Commission related to the local elections in Mojkovac," the party announced.
The first appeal they filed, as Mikić explained, refers to the decision of the State Election Commission No. 408/2, which unfoundedly rejects the Objection of the Civic Movement URA to the Decision of the Municipal Election Commission, which prevented the appointment of an authorized representative of the GP URA list to the expanded composition of the Municipal Election Commission .
Mikić states that these institutions unfoundedly rejected the requests of the URA, and claims that they selectively applied the Law on the Election of Councilors and Members of Parliament.
They support their claims from URA with the data that during the October 2016 parliamentary elections, the State Election Commission appointed one representative to the extended composition of the SEC on election day, and three more representatives after the parliamentary elections, which was confirmed by the Decisions of the SEC and stated in CEMI's final report on civil monitoring of parliamentary and local elections in Montenegro in October 2016.
"Here we have an obvious situation where the SEC takes completely different positions on the same legal matter in a period of one year. By rejecting our request, the Mojkovac Municipal Council and the State Election Commission grossly violated the provisions of Article 26 of the Law on the Election of Councilors and Members of Parliament and sent a message that the law is not the same for everything and that it is selectively applied depending on the situation to the situation as it suits the ruling structures", said Mikić.
The second appeal they submitted to the Constitutional Court refers to the decision of the State Election Commission on the rejection of the Objection to the regularity of the election, which was submitted to the SEC on November 30.11.2017, XNUMX. submitted by the holder of the GP URA electoral list in the elections in Mojkovac, Ivan Ašanin.
The URA particularly emphasized the provisions of Article 2 of the Constitution of Montenegro, which stipulates that "Citizens exercise power directly and through freely elected representatives. Power that does not arise from the freely expressed will of citizens in democratic elections, in accordance with the law, cannot be established or recognized." .", as well as the provisions of Article 45, paragraph 4 of the Constitution of Montenegro, which states: "Elections are free and direct, and voting is secret".
"Taking into account Article 110 paragraph 2 of the Law on the Election of Councilors, as well as the provisions of Article 97 paragraph 1 of the Law on the Constitutional Court, in the second lawsuit, we asked the Constitutional Court to annul the Decision of the State Election Commission No. 409/2 and adopt the Objection to the regularity of the election which was submitted to the State Election Commission on November 30.11.2017, XNUMX by the URA Civic Movement - i.e. the authorized representative of the electoral list, Mr. Ivan Ašanin," specified Mikić.
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