The ban on asking questions to ministers is another attempt by the government to avoid discussing the results of their inaction or poor performance, said Social Democrat MP Boris Mugoša.
He thus responded to the claims of the cabinet of the President of the Parliament, Andrija Mandić, who announced that the Rules of Procedure of the Parliament of Montenegro stipulate that MPs who have been suspended from parliament cannot ask questions at the next session dedicated to the Prime Minister's Hour.
"Another failed and cheap attempt to justify a classic violation of the Rules of Procedure, referring to the situation with former MP (Andrija) Popović. Namely, then (in 2021) MP Popović was first given a measure of deprivation of speech at the session and then removal (paragraph 1 of Article 109 of the Rules of Procedure) and therefore could not ask questions to ministers at the next session (paragraph 5 of Article 109 of the Rules of Procedure)," Mugoša wrote on the X network.
He also said that Mandić did not impose a measure of deprivation of speech and then a measure of removal (paragraph 1 of Article 109 of the Rules of Procedure) at the session, but rather used paragraph 2 of that article and imposed a measure of removal directly.
"In that case, there is no prohibition on asking questions to ministers (paragraph 5 of Article 109 of the Rules of Procedure) and that is crystal clear, just as the motives for yet another attempt by the government to evade discussion about the results of their inaction or poor performance are crystal clear," said Mandić.
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