Rakočević: The parliamentary majority violates the Law on the Election of Members of Parliament and Councilors, they will not appoint new members of the SEC

The MP of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) Nikola Rakočević said today that the parliamentary majority is violating the Law on the Election of Members of Parliament and Councilors because they will not appoint new members of the State Election Commission (SEC) and will not participate in the Committee for Electoral Reform.

Rakočević said at the press conference that the composition of the SEC is completely illegitimate by the will of the majority.

He reminded that after verifying the mandates, the parliament has the obligation to adopt the new composition of the SEC - four members from the opposition and four members from the parliamentary majority.

"A year has passed, the parliamentary majority on the Administrative Committee does not want to adopt the new composition of the SEC, according to which neither the government nor the opposition gets anything compared to the earlier convocation of the SEC. But it gets the overall state system because the Law would be respected on the election of councilors and deputies, that members of the SEC are elected in relation to the composition of the parliament," Rakočević said.

He added that the situation is now such that there are no members in the SEC from the largest political entity in the parliament, the Europe Now Movement (PES), and "there is a representative of the Movement for Change sitting there who has no MPs".

"Why don't the majority elect new members? One reason is completely clear - the obstruction of the obligations we have on the way to the EU and the other possible reason is that, after the scenario in Andrijevica and Šavnik, they may also contest the local elections that they don't like in the municipalities in which elections follow".

He explained that any actor of the election process can submit a complaint to the Constitutional Court, stating that the SEC is not in a legitimate composition and the Constitutional Court can make only one decision - that the complainant is right.

Rakoćević said that one of the obligations in accordance with the EU agenda is the adoption of amendments to the Law on the Financing of Political Entities and Election Campaigns, but the majority do not want them to return to the Electoral Reform Committee.

"The question is who from the majority is creating obstructions on the way to the EU, whether all of them or a part... Is this according to the dictates of (Andrija) Mandić and (Milan) Knežević, who condition support for the Government of (Milojko) Spajić, or is Spajić also with them the creator of this kind of policy, which is apparently quietly blocking Montenegro's path to the EU".

When it comes to the situation in Šavnik, he said that after the meeting in the parliament, "no one spoke to them".