At today's session, the Government of Montenegro adopted the Decision on warning the Municipality of Tivat, by which it warned the local administration of that city that it is obliged to perform its legislative function, that is, to ensure the work of the local parliament.
According to unofficial information from "Vijesti", because the Decision on the warning was not published today on the Government's website together with other materials that were on the agenda of yesterday's session, the Assembly of the Municipality of Tivat was given a deadline of 10 days from the date of publication of this decision in the Official Gazette of Montenegro. to hold a session and ensure the performance of its legally mandated function.
If this does not happen, the Government will immediately, according to Article 185 of the Law on Local Self-Government, make a decision to dissolve the current convocation of the Tivat Municipal Council.
According to Article 37 of the same law, the President of the State is obliged to call for local elections in Tivat on the day after the decision on the dissolution of the Local Government comes into force.
This order of moves and the deadlines from yesterday's Government decision ensure that the extraordinary local elections in Tivat will be held at the end of May, together with the regular local elections that will then be held in several Montenegrin cities.
After the dissolution of the Municipal Assembly, according to the law, the role of the local parliament until the holding of elections and the constitution of a new convocation of the Municipal Assembly will be performed by a three-member Board of Commissioners appointed by the Government. This means that the commissioners perform a legislative function and make all decisions within the jurisdiction of the local parliament, while the executive local authority of the administration of Mayor Željko Komnenović (NP) continues to function smoothly until the election.
By the way, the Tivat Municipal Council held its last session at the end of June last year, and from September until a few days ago, there were a total of six unsuccessful attempts by the president of the Municipal Council Andrija Petković (BF) to convene and hold the 11th regular session of the local parliament.
He and the minority local government of the coalition of citizens' lists Narod Pobjeđuje, Bokeški Forum and "Goran Božović - honorable and responsible for a better Tivat" did not succeed in this because the opposition parties DPS, SD and HGI, as well as the SDP, which withdrew its parliamentary support in September which until then was given to the minority government of the citizen list, by boycotting the work of the parliament, they left without a quorum and the possibility for the SO to hold sessions.
Although the NP-BF-GB coalition proposed that at the last attempt to hold the 11th session of the Tivat Council on February 10, the decision to shorten the mandate of the current convocation was adopted as a prelude to extraordinary local elections, its 16 councilors could not do so, because 16 councilors from the opposition and the SDP again did not come to the session and again left the local parliament without a quorum for work.
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