Collegium held, Mandić at the session: We managed to notice some things that the opposition pointed out

The Collegium of the Speaker of the Parliament was held today before the start of the Parliament session dedicated to the Prime Minister's Hour.

The session of the Collegium was scheduled by the President of the Parliament of Montenegro, Andrija Mandić, at the session of the Parliament on the eve of the Prime Minister's Hour.

"Today is the prime minister's hour. This morning, as a parliamentary majority, we discussed the application of the Rules of Procedure and, believe me, up to this point we have managed to notice some things that the opposition pointed out, but you just received the prime minister's answers. I would like to ask the MPs to read the answers sent by the prime minister, and I am scheduling a short collegium that will last no longer than 15 minutes," said Mandić at the session before the collegium of the Assembly Speaker.

Prime time was supposed to start at 12 noon, and it started around 13:30 p.m.

In recent days, the opposition has criticized the fact that some of their MPs were prevented from asking questions to Prime Minister Milojko Spajić during today's Prime Minister's Hour.

Yesterday, Mandić's office unofficially told Vijesti that the Rules of Procedure of the Parliament stipulate that MPs who have been suspended from parliament cannot ask questions at the next session dedicated to the Prime Minister's Hour.

Part of Article 109 of the Rules of Procedure of the Assembly states:

"A deputy who has been ordered to take the floor does not have the right to ask a parliamentary question at the first subsequent session dedicated to a parliamentary question."

Social Democrat (SD) MP Boris Mugoša said yesterday 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.

He previously said in a discussion on the Iks network that the deputies were not first given the measure of deprivation of speech at the session and then expulsion, but that the position of that member was used, which imposed the measure of expulsion without deprivation of speech. Therefore, this is a classic "trampling" of the Rules of Procedure.