With a short list of those they are ready to vote for and a "wish list", parliamentary clubs and members of the Constitutional Committee will try to reach a compromise today to unblock the Constitutional Court.
The joint session of the Board and the Collegium of the President of the Assembly is scheduled for 16:XNUMX, and on the agenda is the agreement on the election of four judges of the Constitutional Court, which has been blocked since September of this year, "Vijesti" confirmed.
According to the information available yesterday, the greatest chances are given to the deputy ombudsman Snežani Armenko, to the judges of the Administrative Court Jelena Ruzicic i Fadil Kardović, heads of the department for constitutional appeals of the Constitutional Court Jadranka Novaković, to the Ulcinj prosecutor Faruk Resulbegović, to the President of the Court for Misdemeanors from Bijelo Polje Alija Beganović, and from yesterday to the judge of the Kotor Basic Court Momirka Tešić and the hospital lawyer Suleiman Guci.
Allegedly, these lawyers have the political support of the government and the opposition, but there is no confirmation that there is an agreement for some of them to refuse the green light, that is, 54 votes of deputies at the plenum.
The parliamentary majority discussed the candidates yesterday, and whether it is possible to reach the need for a majority for their election will be known today.
Prime Minister Dritan Abazovic yesterday, during his official visit to Ulcinj, he said that today is "D-day".
He repeated that he believes that Montenegro will get a functional Constitutional Court very soon, "if there is no attempt to politicize that institution". "If there is no attempt to politicize the Constitutional Court, I believe that very soon, in two weeks or however long it takes to schedule a session, we will have a functional Constitutional Court, which would be a major boost to European integration," said Abazović.
The Prime Minister and leader of the URA GP said that he saw no reason not to elect all four judges. "We just have to be aware of the fact that if the DPS calculates that the candidate of the minority peoples will be the candidate of the DPS and that they will again have a majority in the Constitutional Court, that is a wrong calculation," said Abazović.
Although officials of the ruling coalition express optimism that an agreement will be reached, the source of "Vijesti" close to judicial circles does not share the belief that there will be an agreement.
He said that it is unlikely that the calculation will pass to elect two government candidates and one each from the minority and DPS. Because then the DPS and its allies - specifically the Bosniak Party - would once again have the upper hand in the Constitutional Court.
The Constitutional Court has seven judges. Currently there are only three - Milorad Gogic, Budimir Šćepanović i Desanka Lopičić.
Šćepanović and Lopičić are considered judges close to the DPS, and they were also on the list of officials who received housing loans from the former government - which part of the public claims is an act of corruption.
On the other hand, judge Gogić is allegedly close to the opposite political camp and his decisions in court did not go well with the DPS. It also belongs to those who were not rewarded with an apartment or a loan by the former DPS Government.
If DPS and BS each get a seat in the Constitutional Court, it means that the party will Milo Đukanović and continue to have control over that institution because, with Šćepanović, Lopičić and two newly elected judges, she would have four out of seven judges on her side.
Representatives of the parliamentary majority did not want to make statements to the public after the meeting in the Assembly yesterday.
26 lawyers applied for the Constitutional Court, and in order to make it easier to choose four candidates, the parliamentary parties decided to narrow the choice of candidates before the Constitutional Committee votes.
According to the procedure, that Committee proposes four candidates to colleagues, who should elect them at the plenary session with 54 votes. If a majority is not required, 49 votes are needed to elect a judge in the second round.
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