Rakočević: Mandic wants to block the Committee for Electoral Reform

Nikola Rakočević, deputy of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) and co-chairman of the Committee for Electoral Reform, assessed that the President of the Assembly Andrija Mandić wants to block the work of that parliamentary body.

"The head of the parliamentary majority, Andrija Mandić, who in an interview on RTCG again called on the Government to introduce forced administration in Šavnik, clearly intends to block the European perspective of Montenegro, which depends on the reform of the electoral legislation, and at the same time it is quite clear that he does not know the parliamentary procedures It is a mirror of the government that currently governs Montenegro," said Rakočević.

He explained that the Committee for Electoral Reform does not have a mandate to deal with the stalled elections in Savnik, "nor can the Assembly do that."

"The future amendment of election laws cannot refer to ongoing election processes. Every MP should know that much. Therefore, the only possible legal and constitutional solution for Šavnik is the one ordered by the State Election Commission, which is that Mandić's party comrades and coalition partners in the Šavnik MEC vote to repeat the elections at the polling stations where the elections were not completed and at the same time to stop the practice of breaking boxes on the day of the elections, which is and led to the blocking of the election process in Savnik," said the DPS deputy.

"At the same time, with a new call for the introduction of forced administration in Šavnik, Mandić directly calls for the violation of the law and unconstitutional actions, which once led to the blockade of the work of the Committee for Electoral Reform, until the Government withdrew such a decision and at least declaratively showed a desire for dialogue. With his latest actions, the President of the Assembly once again reveals the real anti-European face of the parliamentary majority and announces the blocking of the work of the Committee for Electoral Reform, which should turn on red lights at all relevant domestic and international addresses. because that way would institutionalize the autocratic approach of Mandić, who ignored the MPs and gave himself the right to avoid laws and procedures, using the example of the parliamentary logo," said Rakočević.