Civic Movement URA MP and member of the Committee for Comprehensive Electoral Reform, Ana Novaković Đurović, announced that the movement will only support essential electoral reform, not cosmetic changes to individual laws.
"That is why, when amending the law, I will, among other things, advocate for open lists, increasing quotas for women to 40 percent, and professionalizing the State Election Commission (SEC) and the Municipal Election Commission (MEC)," says Novaković Đurović.
She adds that the best legal solutions will be in vain if the institutions that will implement them remain politicized, which, she says, has been the intention of this parliamentary majority so far.
"In this race against time, to complete the electoral reform by the end of the year, the same thing should not happen as happened with the IBAR laws. The laws were voted on, a positive IBAR was received, and now we have to change them because they were of poor quality, which we at ERO warned about. The EU's open support for electoral reform in Montenegro should be the basis for us to seriously step forward in this area, and not to chase after the strings from the EU agenda, without real change and reform," said Novaković Đurović.
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