The Parliamentary Committee for Security and Defense will be headed by a member of the Europe Now Movement (PES). Miodrag Laković, while his deputy will be a deputy of GP URA, Filip Adzic, "Vijesti" learns.
Apart from Laković, there will be members of that committee from PES Jelena Nedović i Miloš Pižurica, from the Democrat Boris Bogdanovic and from the Social Democrats Nikola Zirojevic.
Other parties should nominate their members of that and other parliamentary committees no later than the beginning of the session of the Administrative Committee, which is scheduled for today.
In the new parliamentary convocation, as in the last one, there will be 14 parliamentary bodies (committees and the Commission for monitoring the privatization process). Parliamentary committees in the new convocation will have 13 members each, seven from the government and six from the opposition, and a special club of deputies, in which there is a deputy from the United Montenegro Vladimir Dobričanin and two MPs from the PES list Jevrosima Pejović i Radinka Ćinćur, will act from the opposition quota.
The Committee for Security and Defense was an obstacle to a quick agreement between the ruling parties on which of them would lead the remaining 11. As "Vijesti" previously wrote, the PES and the coalition for the Future of Montenegro (ZBCG), whose one of the leaders Milan Knezevic in the previous convocation, he was the president of that body.
ZBCG has five parliamentary committees, two of which belong to the Democratic People's Party (DNP) and three to the New Serbian Democracy (NSD). DNP deputies will head the Political System and Legislative Committee, and NSD will head the Constitutional Committee, the Committee for Tourism, Agriculture, Ecology and Spatial Planning.
Television Vijesti announced that it will cover the position of president of the Committee for Human Rights and Freedoms Jovan Vučurović, Simonida Kordić most likely remains at the head of the Constitutional Committee, and that he will Dejan Djurovic manage the Committee for Tourism, Agriculture, Ecology and Spatial Planning.
Democrats, according to "Vijesti" information, get the Committee for International Relations, for which he was proposed as president Dusko Stjepović and the Committee for Education, Science, Culture and Sports, which he will most likely chair Nikola Rovčanin.
According to the Rules of Procedure of the Assembly, at least three committee presidents are elected from the opposition. The opposition asked to get another committee, but, as they said earlier, that request was not respected.
The opposition parties will manage the committees for economy, finance and budget, for European integration and for anti-corruption.
MPs and vice-presidents of DPS Ivan Vukovic i Jevto Erakovic they were proposed for the presidents of the Committee for European Integration, i.e. the Committee for Anti-Corruption, said the interlocutor from the DPS. He will manage the Committee for Economy, Finance and Budget Mirsad Nurković from the Bosniak Party, they told "Vijesta" from that party.
Stjepović from DCG will be a member of both the Administrative and Legislative Committees, while Rovčanin will be a member of the Constitutional Committee and the Committee for Political System, Judiciary and Administration.
Democrat MP Momcilo Leković will be the deputy chairman of the Anti-corruption Committee, and a member of the Committee for Monitoring and Control of the Privatization Procedure and the Committee for Tourism, Agriculture, Ecology and Spatial Planning, and Anđela Vojinović member of the Committee for Human Rights and Freedoms, the Committee for European Integration and the Committee for Monitoring and Control of the Privatization Procedure.
Albin Ceman he was nominated as a member of the Committee on Health, Labor and Social Welfare and the Committee on Gender Equality, and vice-president of the Parliament Zdenka Popović she was proposed as a member of the Committee for Economy, Finance and Budget.
"Vijesti" learns that the head of the parliamentary club Social Democrats, Boris Mugoša to be a member of the Committee for Economy, Finance and Budget and the Committee for Health, Labor and Social Welfare, and a deputy Branislav Nenezić Committee for Education, Science, Culture and Sports and Committee for Tourism, Agriculture, Ecology and Spatial Planning. Their colleague Nikola Zirojevic he will work in three committees, the Committee for Security and Defense, the Committee for Political System, Justice and Administration and the Committee for International Relations and Expatriates.
The second session of the Administrative Committee of the Assembly, which was previously postponed, will be held as a continuation of the Third Session of the Committee, which is scheduled for today at 11 am, the Assembly announced.
On the agenda of the third session is the initiation of the procedure for the appointment of nine members of the State Election Commission and consideration of requests to exercise rights from the work of a number of deputies and other officials.
After that, the continuation of the second session follows, on the agenda of which is the determination of the list of candidates for the president and members of the permanent parliamentary committees and the Commission for Monitoring and Control of the Privatization Procedure.
The first session of the Administrative Board was held on November 10, but the list of candidates for the president and members of the standing committees in the Assembly was not determined, because no proposals were received for these positions. The second session was scheduled for November 17, but was postponed for the same reason.
Zogović: Knežević gave up because of the Census Law, PES insisted that they get the Security Committee
The leader of the Democratic People's Party, Milan Knežević, gave up his position as the head of the Committee on Security in order to enable the parliamentary session to be held on Monday and the bill on the census to be adopted, said a DNP deputy yesterday. Milun Zogović.
"Even though that seat belonged to the ZBCG coalition, and in the last convocation he raised the work of that committee to the most respectable level, colleagues from PES insisted that it should belong to them. "Eventually, our non-compliance would mean that the session on Monday cannot be held," Zogović told "Vijesta".
The division of parliamentary committees was agreed upon in a package, that is, according to the principle "nothing is agreed until everything is agreed", which means that if there is no agreement on one committee, there is no committee. Before the debate at the plenum, each bill must be considered and declared by the parent committee, and the Census Act is the responsibility of the Committee for Economy, Finance and Budget.
PES, however, claim that the information about the negotiations on the Security Committee is not correct.
"Absolutely incorrect information, the negotiations were in a correct and collegial spirit", said Miodrag Laković, head of the PES parliamentary club, to "Vijesta". after he was presented with the unofficial claims of the participants in the negotiations, which Zogović later confirmed.
Zogović said that it is true that the talks were collegial and cultural, but "if we had not given up, there would be no Census Law".
"Knežević gave up in order to create the conditions for the formation of the committee and the holding of the parliamentary session. I attended the negotiations. We had to give up because they insisted on it," said Zogović.
He said that Knežević will not be a member of any parliamentary committee. "He didn't do it out of any protest, it was simply his decision," said Zogovic.
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