Opposition representatives did not attend the Constitutional Committee session today, nor did they propose a third member of the commission that would assess whether the applications of candidates for judges of the Constitutional Court were submitted in accordance with the public call, so that position will go to Democratic Montenegro MP Nikola Rovčanin.
The president of that parliamentary body, Jelena Božović (New Serbian Democracy), stated that the member would be elected from the ranks of the ruling majority, and that they had shown goodwill by offering for him to be from the opposition, which they were not obliged to do.
"What the opposition has been demanding in this past period, after the decision to declare Judge (Dragana) Đuranović's retirement, is for the committee to annul the conclusions it made. This is something that is legally impossible, which has never happened because no political decision was made on this committee, this committee only declared the decision that Đuranović had met the conditions for retirement. This was further forwarded to the President of the Assembly, who confirmed these conclusions. There are no unconstitutional actions here, no constitutional coup as the opposition, raising tensions in the public, is trying to portray," Božović said.
She added that two years ago, the ruling majority, which included the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS), supporting the minority government, made a decision to postpone the elections, which the Constitutional Court declared unconstitutional, but the elections were still held in October.
"If such a law has been declared unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court, what do all the other actions that resulted from such an unconstitutional law mean? This means that today all the elections held on October 23, 2022, and the assemblies of local parliaments, and the elections of municipal presidents, and the decisions made by the municipal presidents, are questionable," Božović pointed out.
She recalled that Supreme Court judge Vesna Medenica was voted president unconstitutionally for the third time and asked whether, in that case, all decisions made in the third term were unconstitutional.
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