Today, the Constitutional Court decides on nine election disputes

Today, the Constitutional Court will decide on nine election disputes, including those due to which the results of the local elections in Podgorica have not yet been announced.

The Constitutional Court did not answer the questions of "Vijesti" when the session of the new convocation will begin and whether the media can follow it, given the great interest of the public.

Due to election appeals against the decision of the State Election Commission (SEC), the final results of the local elections in Podgorica, Plav and Pljevlja, which were held on October 23 last year, have not yet been announced.

As "Vijesti" previously announced, the Constitutional Court has a total of 27 complaints about the election process, and that institution could not consider them because it did not have a quorum to work since September, after the retirement of several judges. The Constitutional Court was unblocked on February 27 with the election of the three missing judges.

The Assembly elected a deputy ombudsman Snežana Armenko, the former protector of property and legal interests of the state Dragan Đuranović and a judge of the Basic Court in Kotor Momirko Tešić for judges of the Constitutional Court, for a term of 12 years.

The fourth candidate Faruk Resulbegović he was not elected as a judge of the Constitutional Court because the deputies of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) and the Bosniak Party (BS) abstained during the vote.

The Assembly will decide on it at the end of March at the earliest. In order for him to be elected in the second round of voting, he will need three-fifths support, that is, the votes of 49 deputies.

The Constitutional Court currently has 2.826 cases under all jurisdictions. Of these, as they told "Vijesti" last week, 2.512 are in the process of deciding on a constitutional appeal, 285 are in the process of assessing the compliance of laws with the Constitution and confirmed and published international documents, and the process of assessing the compliance of other regulations and general acts with the Constitution and the law.

"One is in the process of deciding whether the President of Montenegro has violated the Constitution, one in the process of deciding on conflict of jurisdiction and 27 in the process of deciding on election disputes," they said.

The case of the president Milo Đukanović and his political attitude towards the enthronement of the metropolitan of the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral in Cetinje in 2021 was already on the agenda of the Constitutional Court, but the decision was not made because the votes were divided, i.e. the four votes necessary for the decision were missing.

Judge rapporteur Milorad Gogic he believed that Đukanović violated the Constitution when he commented on the enthronement of the Metropolitan of Montenegrin-Limitarian in August 2021 Joanikia to Cetinje, however, at the session, three of his colleagues were against it. Gogić's case will go to the plenum again, "Vijesti" was previously told unofficially that he will request it as soon as the conditions for work are created.