All parliamentary committees should be constituted in the middle of this month, and the formation of the Committee for Electoral Reform is also planned, "Vijesti" learned unofficially in the parliament.
How many committees will belong to the parties in power, and how many to the opposition, will be determined at the collegium of the president of the parliament, which is made up of the heads of parliamentary clubs, which, according to "Vijesti" sources, was not yet initiated yesterday.
The members of the parliamentary committees should soon be chosen by the Administrative Committee, whose members and president were chosen by the Assembly at its session on Monday evening. She was elected as the president of the board Jelena Nedović from the Europe Now Movement (PES). The administrative board has 12 members - two members each from the PES and the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS), and one each from the New Serbian Democracy, the Democratic People's Party (DNP), the Democrats, the URA GP, the Special Club of Deputies, the Albanian Forum, the Social Democrats and the Bosniak Party.
In the last convocation of the parliament, there were 14 permanent committees - Administrative, Constitutional, Legislative, Committee for Political System, Justice and Defense, Committee for Security and Defense, for International Relations and Expatriates, for European Integration, for Economy, Finance and Budget, for Human Rights and freedom, for gender equality, for education, science, culture and sports, for tourism, agriculture, ecology and spatial planning, for health, work and social welfare and for anti-corruption. Deputies should form a Commission for monitoring and controlling the privatization process, as well as a Women's Club.
In addition to permanent committees, MPs have the possibility to form survey committees, working groups, as well as the Committee for Comprehensive Electoral Reform, whose members in previous convocations failed to reach an agreement and reform the electoral legislation.
At the end of December 2020, the Assembly passed the Decision on the establishment of the Committee for Comprehensive Electoral Reform, but it started working even seven months later, in April 2021.
The committee held only six sessions, but since it had the same number of members from the government and the opposition, it was not possible to reach an agreement. In the new convocation of the Assembly, unlike the previous one, the division between the government and the opposition is clear, and the structure of the opposition has been changed. Now, among the opposition parties, there is not only DPS with partners, but there is also GP URA, as well as a Special Club of MPs consisting of Vladimir Dobričanin from the United Montenegro, Jevrosima Pejović former member of the Europe Now Movement (PES), as well as Radinka Ćinćur which is not formally excluded from PES, like Pejović. The two of them opposed the first proposal of the PES leader and the Prime Minister Milojko Spajić to form the government with minimal support, without the coalition for the future of Montenegro. It is expected that now all opposition parties do not vote in the block with DPS.
Možura was not controlled, because they did not know who was the government and who was the opposition
In the previous parliamentary convocation, due to the ambiguity of who is the government and who is the opposition, in February of this year, the Inquiry Committee was not formed to collect information and facts about the actions of competent state authorities and other subjects in connection with the Možura wind power plant project. The Assembly adopted the decision on the opening of the parliamentary investigation and the formation of the Inquiry Committee on July 30 last year.
Doubts arose after the formation of the Government of Dritan Abazović with the minority support of the DPS in April last year, and a few months later, also with the help of the DPS, it was voted no-confidence.
The aim of the parliamentary investigation, among other things, as written in the decision, would be for the Assembly to assess, based on the committee's report, whether the (in)action of the competent state bodies had harmful consequences for property and the overall public interest of Montenegro, and to determine afterwards the possible existence of political and criminal-legal responsibility of specific persons.
The Special State Prosecutor's Office has been investigating this procedure for years.
The Možura project is mentioned in the research on corruption in Malta by the journalist Dafna Caruana Galicija, who was killed in a car bomb explosion in October 2017. The Možura wind farm near Ulcinj, worth around 90 million euros, started operating in mid-November 2019, while DPS was in power.
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