The president of the Board of Directors of the LGBT Forum Progres, Bojana Jokić, filed a complaint with the Constitutional Court, requesting that the presidential candidacy of the leader of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) Milo Đukanović be annulled.
In her appeal, Jokić stated that the State Election Commission (SEC) wrongly applied substantive law by confirming the candidacy of Đukanović because, as she claims, Đukanović has no constitutional basis to be a candidate for president for the third time.
In the complaint, which the RTCG portal had access to, it is stated that Đukanović was president from 1998 to 2002 and a second time from 2018 to 2023.
"Since the time when Mr. Milo Đukanović served his first presidential term in 1998, neither the territory, nor the constitutional identity, nor the position of Montenegro, as the basic preconditions for state discontinuity, have changed, it is absolutely clear that there is no question about any discontinuity," stated Jokić in her appeal to the Constitutional Court.
Jokić states that there is a principle of "ratio legis" prescribed by Article 97 paragraph 2 of the Constitution of Montenegro, which decisively prohibits one person from being the President of Montenegro for more than 10 years, regardless of whether he has served consecutively.
"With presidential candidate Milo Đukanović, it is clear that if he wins the elections, he will be the president of Montenegro for a total of 14 years, which represents a gross violation of the quoted article of the Constitution of Montenegro," he states in the complaint.
"The contested decision of the SEC is completely illegal, so I suggest that the court issues a decision accepting the appeal and canceling the decision on the declaration of candidacy," said Jokić.
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