The President of the Municipality of Nikšić and MP of the New Serbian Democracy, Marko Kovačević, said that he will not resign from either of those two positions because he claims that the law cannot be applied retroactively.
The new leadership of the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (ASK) recently assessed that these two functions are incompatible and called on public officials who are in this situation to give up one of the functions.
Kovačević, in his guest appearance at Boje jutra, said that he will remain at the head of the Municipality until the end of his mandate and that the Agency's previous decisions produced certain legal consequences.
"We have official communication with the KAS. I received a letter that the previous decision, which was irregular, and which called for the newly adopted Law to be retroactively effective, has been annulled. As for the further actions of the KAS, the decisions they made in the past as institution produced certain legal consequences. And as what applies to more, applies to less, so if the Law could not act retroactively, what produced legal consequences in that sense cannot act retroactively. Because the mandates have already begun their decisions", stated Kovačević.
He concluded that ASK as an institution is not to blame for such actions.
The President of the Municipality of Bar, Dušan Raičević, and the President of the Bar Parliament, Branislav Nenezić, are currently in a situation similar to Kovačević's.
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