At today's session, the Constitutional Court of Montenegro rejected the appeal of the Forward Movement to repeat the vote in Doljani, it was confirmed by Vijesti.
The decision was made unanimously, with the dissenting opinion of the president of the Constitutional Court, Snežana Armenko.
The Naprijed movement, which was led by Vuk Kadić in the elections in Podgorica, submitted to the Constitutional Court appeals against the decisions of the State Election Commission, which rejected 14 objections related to, as they claim, irregularities in the elections in Podgorica.
The Constitutional Court told Vijesti that they will make a statement on 13 appeals later and that they will soon ask the SEC for a statement.
Until the Constitutional Court pronounces on the submitted appeals, the results of the elections in Podgorica, which were held on September 29, cannot be announced.
The Naprijed Movement list with 2,75 percent voter support remained below the threshold in the local elections in Podgorica on September 29, and they lacked about 200 votes to enter the city parliament. According to the preliminary results, the DPS won 19 seats in the city parliament, the coalition of the Europe Now Movement (PES) and Democrats won 14, the alliance "For the Future of Podgorica" won 13, the list "Za bolja Podgorica" won six, the European Union three, and Preokret and the Party of European Progress (SEP) two each.
At today's session, the Constitutional Court did not make a decision on the appeals of the leader of the coalition of Democrats and the Europe Now Movement in Kotor, Vladimir Jokić, because the result of the vote was "tied", ie 3:3.
On October 11, Jokić submitted two appeals to the Constitutional Court regarding the election process in that city. One complaint relates to the election events in Mirac polling station, and the other is in connection with one polling station in Prčanje, where the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) is requesting a repeat of the election, while the SEC also ordered that the Kotor Municipal Council announce the decision on a new vote on those two places.
At the session, the local commission did not make a decision on repeating the election, because eight of its members supported the annulment of the vote, while eight were against it. At least nine votes are needed to make a decision.
In the Law on the Election of Councilors and Members of Parliament (Article 109) it is written that the complaint is considered adopted if the local commission does not act on it within 24 hours of receipt. However, in order for the elections to be repeated, the Municipal Election Commission of Kotor should, in addition to canceling the vote, also make a decision on calling the election, which it did not do.
Before the Constitutional Court, Jokić is reviewing the "deadlock" in the local commission, that is, as he told "Vijesta" recently, he wants to prove that the "eight to eight" ratio is not enough to make any decision.
DPS requested to re-vote at one polling station (Dom kulture) in Prčanje because there were two more ballots in the ballot box (271 in total) than the number of control coupons (269). On the other hand, the Democrats - PES coalition demanded that the vote in the town of Mirac be annulled because the stamp on the ballots was in the wrong place.
If the elections in Prčanje were repeated, the DPS could "seize" one mandate from the Democrats - PES coalition.
According to the preliminary results of the elections held on September 29, DPS and the coalition PES-Democrats won ten mandates each, the alliance "For the Future of Kotor", the Grbljanska Lista and the Democratic Alternative three each, the European Union two, and the Croatian Civic Initiative (HGI) and the Kotor Movement per mandate.
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