The mayor of Kotor, the president of OO Democrats and the holder of the election list of the coalition of Democrats and PES in that city in the local elections, Vladimir Jokić, filed an objection to the Municipal Election Commission (MEC) in Kotor on its decision to repeat the voting at one polling station in Prčanje, and after apparently, this will ultimately be decided by the State Election Commission.
Jokić requests that the MEC cancel its decision on accepting the speech of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) on the results of the election process at polling station number 17 Prčanj - Dom kulture, i.e. the decision to repeat the election at that polling station.
The MEC chaired by Anka Perović (DPS) yesterday accepted the objection of the DPS and its request to vote again at the polling station in Prčanje because there were two more ballots in the ballot box (271 in total) than the number of control coupons (269). By the way, last year, the Constitutional Court rejected three appeals of this type after the parliamentary elections held in June, judging that such small discrepancies in the voting materials could not significantly affect the outcome of the elections.
DPS, which four days ago won ten mandates in the Kotor parliament, could "steal" one mandate from the coalition of Democrats and the Europe Now Movement (PES) next week, as voting will take place again at the polling station in Prčanje.
DPS lacks 11 votes for that 18th mandate, and according to Dont's quotient, they would take it at the expense of the DCG-PES coalition, which also won ten council seats in the elections. Making the decision to accept the objections of the DPS and repeat the election at one polling station in Prčanje, which should take place on Tuesday, the MEC Kotor did so with the votes "for" eight members of the election commission, while seven of them were against.
The session was not attended by a member of the committee representing the "For the Future of Kotor" list.
Today, Jokić submitted to the MEC the complaint of the DCG-PES coalition, considering that the election commission violated Article 21 of the Law on the Election of Councilors and MPs with its decision to accept the speech of the DPS and repeat the election at one polling station.
"Namely, in that article it was established that the authorities for the implementation of elections decide by the majority of their members. The MEC in its permanent and expanded composition has 16 members. The session of the Kotor MEC at which the challenged acts were passed was attended by 15 members, and the decision was made with eight votes 'for' and seven votes 'against' the adoption of the objection and the adoption of the decision on repeating the election. The majority for the adoption of the decision, in accordance with the provisions of Article 21 of the Law on the Election of Councilors and Members of Parliament, is in the case when there are 16 members of the Municipal Election Commission, 9 members, and in the case in question, 8 members of the MEC voted for the adoption of the resolution and the adoption of the decision," states Jokić's complaint, which emphasizes that it is therefore "indisputable that this decision was not made in accordance with the imperative legal provisions" which, according to him, "there was a violation of voting rights and provisions of the law".
The MEC, which was supposed to meet tonight, will decide on this objection by Jokić, however, it will most likely not do so. Jokić therefore announced the filing of criminal charges against MEC president Anka Perović and an address to the State Election Commission, which, as he pointed out, "as a second instance body must decide on illegally made and void decisions and decisions of the MEC".
The holder of the DCG-PES list stressed that the State Election Commission must protect the legality of the election process and that for formal reasons "it must not allow the MEC to make decisions without any majority, and publish them, which should then produce legal effect, and on which no one has the right to appeal".
According to the preliminary results of the elections in Kotor, DPS and the Democrats-PES coalition won ten mandates each, the alliance "For the Future of Kotor", Grbljanska Lista and Democratic Alternative three each, the European Union two, and the Croatian Civic Initiative (HGI) and the Kotor Movement one mandate each .
At the polling station in the House of Culture in Prčanje, 266 voters voted on Sunday (495 were registered), of which DPS received 98 votes, PES and Democrats 58, "For the Future of Kotor" 29, Grbljanska list four, Democratic Alternative 24 , European Union 14, HGI 19 and Kotor Movement 3.
The rest of the votes went to lists that did not pass the census - the coalition of the Socialist People's Party and the Democratic Serbian Party (13), the list "Guardians of the City" (two), and the Montenegrin Civic Action and the list "Za Kotor" (one each).
The Kotor Parliament has 33 council seats, which means that at least 17 votes are needed to form a government.
The Democrats-PES coalition and the "For the Future of Kotor" list have 13 mandates, which means they lack four. On the other hand, the DPS with its traditional partners - the European Union consisting of the Social Democrats, the Social Democratic Party, the Liberal Party and Citizens, and the HGI - has 13 mandates. If the "runaway" member Davor Kumburović, whose Democratic Alternative has three mandates, returns, then they would be within reach of forming a government.
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