Two requests were submitted to the Supreme Court to review the ruling of the Administrative Court, by which the July election of the mayor of Podgorica Ivan Vuković determined to be illegal.
The Supreme Court responded to "News" that the club of Democratic councilors from the capital's Assembly submitted a request for an extraordinary review of the verdict that annulled the decision of the Capital's Assembly from July 5, 2022. And Vuković, as stated by the Supreme Court, "also as an interested party, addressed with a request for an extraordinary review of the verdict".
Democratic Montenegro told "Vijesta" that they did not submit a request to the Supreme Court, because they are satisfied with the decision of the Administrative Court.
The mayor of Podgorica did not receive majority support in Sunday's local elections and announced that he would hand over power, even though he was re-elected for the second time three days before the election.
The deadline for objections to the course of the elections on October 23 expired last night at 20 p.m.
"Svetosavaska srpska lista" submitted several objections to the Election Commission of the Capital City yesterday, which, among other things, requested an inspection of the election material. President of the MEC Veselin Vukcevic said that he would urgently convene the session and provide access to the list that requested it, and he would act on the complaint within 24 hours.
According to unofficial information, several complaints were also submitted by several citizens.
In Podgorica, the coalition around the DPS won 24 mandates, the Europe now movement 13, and the DF with its coalition partners 11 mandates. The List of Democrats-UCG-Demos won six mandates, the URA-Civis-Albanian Alternative coalition won four mandates. SNP, Preokret and Svetosavaska srpska lista were under the census.
MEC Zeta received an objection from the DPS, which is demanding a repeat of the elections at two polling stations due to "unreasonableness in connection with invalid ballots", "Vijesti" learns. In the youngest municipality, DF won 16 mandates, DPS 8, Democrats 7 and SNP 1 mandate. The MEC of Tivta did not receive a complaint from a single applicant of electoral lists. The meeting of the MEC is scheduled for today at noon, when the final results of the elections will be announced.
The coalition DPS-SD-SDP-LP will have 12 councilors in the new convocation of SO Tivat, the coalition "Let's Seal" 10, while DF and HGI will have three councilors each. The Krtol List won two mandates, and the Tivat Action and the Boke Forum will be represented in the new convocation with one councilor each.
MEC Budva rejected the objection of the holder of the election list "Dr Bozidar Vujicic - Civil action - For a better Budva". In that city, the list around DF won 18 mandates, the coalition DPS, SDP, SD, LP and GI "21. May" nine mandates, Democrats - Demos - four mandates and URA and SNP one mandate each.
The Plenipotentiary Council of Pljevlja told "Vijesti" that the coalition gathered around the DPS filed a complaint. In that city, DF won 12 mandates, the coalition led by DPS won nine, the Democrats, the Movement for Pljevlja and UCG seven, Europe now four, and the coalition of SNP and URA two mandates.
Objections were submitted to the Kolašin MEC by Europe Now, and it was announced that they would also do the same for the Together We Build Kolašin Movement. In that municipality, SNP took three mandates, DF four, URA one mandate, Europe now three mandates, Group of voters - "For our Kolašin - Momcilo Vukcevic” two mandates, the Democrats - United Montenegro nine, as many as the coalition around the DPS.
There were no objections in Plužine and Šavnik in the first half of the day, and the MEC announced that they expect it to remain so until the deadline expires. In Plužine, the Democrats won four mandates, Nova six, SNP 17, URA - one, and DPS-SD two mandates.
In Šavnik, Democrats - United Montenegro - Europe now - "Let's go people" got 80 votes, DPS-SD 429 votes, and SNP-NOVA-DNP 474 votes.
The DPS-SD list sent a complaint to the Žabljak MEC due to alleged irregularities at polling station no. 21 - Elementary School "Dušan Obradović".
There were no complaints in Bijelo Polje, and the DF, SNP and Democrats submitted requests for control counting of votes at several polling stations.
The DF informed Vijesti that yesterday, after inspecting the voting materials at several polling stations, they determined that there were no major irregularities, while the SNP announced that today, after the control counting of the materials at several polling stations, they would decide whether extend the request to other places.
In municipalities where there were no objections, the final results can be announced today, while in those where they were submitted, the municipal commissions will have 24 hours to resolve them. If the parties are not satisfied, they can submit a complaint to the State Election Commission, which also has a deadline of 24 hours for a decision.
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