The consultative hearing of the candidate for the election of the supreme state prosecutor before the Committee for the Political System is scheduled for January 17.
All candidates for VDT who meet the requirements will be heard, followed by a second round of voting in the Assembly.
In the first round of voting, at the end of December last year, the candidate for VDT, Maja Jovanović, did not receive the required majority of 54 votes in the Assembly.
This means that there will be a second round of voting in a month at the earliest, in which the VDT will be chosen from among all candidates who meet the legal requirements. Apart from Jovanović, there are also Milorad Marković and Suzana Mugoša, and the election requires a three-thirds majority - the votes of 49 parliamentarians. As things stand now, Marković has the best chance for election.
V. d. the situation in VDT has been ongoing since October 2019. Jovanović has been in the prosecutor's organization for over twenty years, and on February 5, 2022, the Prosecutor's Council chose him to perform the function v. d. VDT, where she served for two terms. During those mandates, and at her suggestion, the Supreme Court elected a new chief special prosecutor, Vladimir Novović, and then several investigations were launched that resulted in indictments against the former heads of the judiciary.
Marković is a master of legal sciences with many years of experience in the field of rule of law - human rights, justice, criminal law and confiscation of property benefits. He worked at the Faculty of Law and as an expert/consultant on EU, Council of Europe, OSCE, UNDP projects...
Suzana Mugoša is a judge of the High Court in Podgorica. She started her career in 1995 in the Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica as an intern, and in 1999 she was elected as an advisor. After five years, she resigned and was elected a judge of the Basic Court in Podgorica, and then progressed in the judicial system. She tried the "Zavala" case, and also delivered the first-instance verdict in the "coup d'état" case, in which the leader of the coalition for the future of Montenegro was accused.
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