19 candidates applied to be judges of the Constitutional Court

The Constitutional Committee determined the list of registered candidates for the election of four judges of the Constitutional Court, who applied for a public advertisement from August 1.

Snežana Armenko, Alija Beganović, Tatjana Bulatović, Ilija Vukčević, Sulejman Guči, Dragana Đuranović, Azra Jasavić, Snežana Jonica, Jovan Kojičić, Sanja Maslenjak, Jadranka Novaković, Zdenka Perović, Mirjana Popović, Ivan Radojičić, Branislav Radulović applied for the public call. , Enesa Rastoder, Jelena Ružičić, Gorica Fatić and Edis Hadžić.

The board also formed a commission that will determine whether the applications of the candidates were submitted in accordance with the public invitation.

Liberal Party MP Andrija Popović said that it is technically almost impossible to elect judges of the Constitutional Court until the scheduled local elections on October 23.

"Next week one judge is retiring, we are left with three out of seven judges. As of next week, the Constitutional Court has no quorum. The Constitutional Court has the last word in election disputes, and the holding of local and extraordinary parliamentary elections at the end of this year or next year is questionable," said Popović.

Andrija Popović said that he was pleasantly surprised that some candidates applied again and that they were not swayed by "party combinatorics".

Popović appealed that the Board conduct the hearing of the candidates and the proposal that will go to the plenum according to an accelerated procedure.

Vladimir Martinović (Democrats) said that in previous attempts to elect judges of the Constitutional Court, the Democrats contributed by supporting certain candidates whom they considered to meet the required criteria, but that certain other parties did not do so.

"Time will tell whose interest they are doing it for."

The board also formed a committee that will determine whether the applications of the candidates were submitted in accordance with the public call. The members of the committee are Jovanka Laličić (DPS), Ljuiđ Škrelja (DPS) and Vladimir Martinović (Democrats).

The session is chaired by the vice president of the board, Miodrag Vuković, because the president of that working body, Simonida Kordić, is officially absent.

At the session of the Constitutional Committee held at the end of July, none of the proposed candidates for the election of four judges of the Constitutional Court, based on three public invitations, received the required majority.

The Constitutional Court now has four members out of the planned seven. The president is Budimir Šćepanović, and the members are Milorad Gogić, Desanka Lopičić and Miodrag Iličković, who on September 13 becomes eligible for an old-age pension, that is when he turns 66.

At the beginning of the year, Dragoljub Drašković retired, and earlier Hamdija Šarkinović and Mevlida Muratović.

For the election of judges of the Constitutional Court, the support of at least three-fifths of the deputies is necessary.